CINCINNATI, OH.- A Korean-American artist based in Cincinnati has selected eleven works that trace her 40-year artistic progression in the new Cincinnati Art Museum retrospective Bukang Y. Kim: Journey.

Kim’s art explores various subjects, formats and techniques using her Western-based training combined with a deep understanding of East Asian aesthetics. Her work demonstrates a mastery of calligraphic brush stroke combined with Abstract Expressionism. Kim has created a powerful and distinctive pictorial language that is rich with feeling.

“Bukang Y. Kim is an exciting contemporary artist,” said Hou-mei Sung, Curator of Asian Art for the Cincinnati Art Museum. “Her art is open to interpretation and diverse, but all of the pieces harmoniously combine multiple cultures.”

This is the first time this collection has been shown at the Cincinnati Art Museum. On display through March 15, the special feature can be found in the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Gallery across from the Museum’s Terrace Café (Gallery 125).

Bukang Y. Kim: Journey is a retrospective collection. In her landscape series, Land 1 and Land 2, Kim’s rich and complex blend of colors and dynamic layered textures show us how she has mastered the gestural abstraction as a mode of expression, yet her style remains unique and beyond definition. In her Korean subjects, including Morning Calm, Column, Temple Bell, The Wind, Yin and Yang, and Rooster, we sense not only the artist’s nostalgia and longing for the homeland of her past, but also her inner journey of enlightenment. In all her works, we are taken on Kim’s evolving journey for spontaneity and universal harmony.

Bukang Yu Kim was born in Korea in 1943. She received her early training at Seoul National University and, after coming to the United States in 1970, furthered her study at University of Cincinnati. Her paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited in South Korea, Europe and the United States.