Art at Kings Oaks

Younghee Choi Martin was one of the first people we asked to take part in Art at Kings Oaks this year as she was unable to accept our invitation the previous year. We had the chance to visit her beautiful solo exhibition at Bowery Gallery in New York last fall, where we saw some of the paintings we've now brought to Kings Oaks. Somehow that thread of contact with Younghee - the promise of showing her in 2019 - kept a glimmer of excitement going for us throughout the year. That glimmer has become a full-force fire now as her paintings hanging along the long, stone wall in the barn warm us to the core. Younghee is drawing upon ancient sources inspired by Aeschylus' Oresteia. These paintings illuminate the acts of heroic characters and transport you into the mythological landscapes in which their dramas play out. Even the tiniest bird is important. The smallest drama unfolding in the distance adds to the tension of the whole. The complexity of relationship between her figures expands your horizons, draws you in, and then catapults you into a world full of effortless movement and consequence.

© Clara Weisahn, Art at Kings Oaks, 2019