Lot 456: Temple Bell , 2002

Wonsook Kim (Kim Wonsook) (B. 1953)
Temple Bell, 2002
Signed and dated Wonsook 02. signed dated on verso Won Sook 02. and titled as above.
Oil on wood
21 15/16 x 17 7/8in. (55.7 x 45.5cm.)

Woonsook Kim has described her metaphorical, even whimsical, work as a scroll of her life from which she extracts small elements in order to bring things into context," and to connect the real and imaginary worlds.

Kim was born in Busan and received her MFA from Illinois State University in 1976. Since 1976 she has had numerous one-person and group exhibitions in Korea, the United States, Japan and Europe. Kim had one-person exhibitions at the Myungdong Gallery, Seoul, in 1976, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, in 1983, 1991, 1997 and 2000, Park Ryo Sook Gallery, Seoul, in 1993, Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, in 1993, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, in 1998, Kong Gan Gallery, Busan, in 2002, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, in 2004, and at McCormick Gallery, Chicago, in 2006. Her work was exhibited at the FIAC International Art Fair, Paris, in 1996.

Kim moved to the United States in the early 1970s. She lives and works in Illinois.