Reception Tonight, Feb 24, 6-8p:
Kim Dong Yoo
Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, 537 W24th St., NYC
Large scale oil paintings by Korean artist Kim Dong Yoo in his first show in the United States. For this show, Yoo’s paintings portray John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and other celebrated figures in American history.
Done in the style that he’s best known for, the paintings are comprised of thousands of small photographs, that either support or contradict the primary subject. Similarly, Jacqueline Kennedy & JFK portrays the graceful former First Lady smiling, comprised with photographs of her husband, while on another note, Albert Einstein & Marilyn Monroe portrays the world’s most respected genius comprised of photographs of Monroe.
life:
One of the characteristics that endeared LIFE magazine to millions of readers in its heyday — and that still makes readers smile when they happen to pick up an old copy 40 long years after the magazine stopped publishing as a weekly — is an evident willingness to cover pretty much anything and everything that might be of even passing interest to the public.
Here, for example, is a small gallery of pictures about, in the magazine’s sober phrase, “the craze and the menace of skateboards.” Proof, if any was needed, that when it came to genuinely seismic shifts in contemporary society, behavior, and habits … well, LIFE was right there.
Ohh yeah c: Congratulations to all, children!
that’s what i call “custom made”