Delacroix's Shadow
2008 · Flasche on panel and latex and shadow on wall
63.5 × 152.4 cm (25 × 60 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Byron Kim
1961
PaintingMinimalismContemporary
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18
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- • Minimalism
- • Contemporary
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Byron Kim makes monochrome and near-monochrome paintings that embed figuration within ostensibly abstract surfaces. His ongoing work Synecdoche (1991) assembles hundreds of panels matched to individual sitters' skin tones, compressing portraiture into a color grid. His night-sky paintings, rendered from memory in barely perceptible shifts of purple and gray, reward sustained, close looking.
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Yale University
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Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
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