Sunday Painting 1/16/11
2011
Byron Kim
American, born 1961
Contemporary Art
Each Sunday for the last two decades, Byron Kim has painted a single view of the sky, overlaid with written ruminations from the day. Kim captures the ever-changing formations and shades of blues, grays, and wispy whites in quick, vigorous brushstrokes, treating the canvas as if it were a window or a skylight. The flat passages of diaristic text insert the artist’s daily experiences onto this shared backdrop of human experience. Through this weekly routine, Kim connects the seemingly ordinary moments of life to a fuller, cosmic sense of time.
- Maker/Artist
- Kim, Byron
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Acrylic and gouache on canvas, mounted on panel
- Dimensions
- 14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
- Departments
- Contemporary Art
- Accession Number
- 2011.37.6
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Contemporary Art Council in honor of Eugenie Tsai and Patrick Amsellem
- Exhibitions
- Infinite Blue, The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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