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Artworks
Young-Il Ahn Korean-American, 1934-2020
Self-Reflection C-2, 2003Oil on canvas36 x 48 x 2 in
91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm
In artist-made wood frame7809Further images
This painting belongs to Young-Il Ahn’s Self-Reflection series. One of his most personal bodies of work, it shares many of the organizational hallmarks of his Water paintings, including compositional reliance...This painting belongs to Young-Il Ahn’s Self-Reflection series. One of his most personal bodies of work, it shares many of the organizational hallmarks of his Water paintings, including compositional reliance on a grid, impasto marks, and similarly worked surfaces. But the autobiographical content of these paintings lends them a unique character within his oeuvre.
Woven into the abstract grids of the Self-Reflection paintings are a series of linguistic symbols, including references to the Korean language's logically ordered alphabet Hangul and logographic symbols borrowed from Chinese called Hanja.
The work hangs on a wire that is attached to its back.Provenance
Artist Studio, LA
Kavi Gupta, Chicago
Exhibitions
Young-Il Ahn, Reflection, Kavi Gupta, 2021
