SIGHT LINES:
Beautiful Geometry

"My work attempts to elevate the human spirit through line, form, space, and color.

"In my black-and-white series of paintings (see "It's a Puzzle"), I worked with the simplest elements: horizontal and vertical lines. The lines are often combined to make forms, but always on a horizontal and vertical axis. The horizontal line signifies the passive; the vertical line signifies the active. In my more recent paintings, I deal with the effect of color on perceptions of scale, proportion, and space.

"In its structure and repetitiveness, my work has a close association with 20th-century music. Certain forms can suggest certain sounds, and different stripes of color can relate to a certain tonality in music. Repetitiveness in my serial work relates to that in serial music; both contain elements of improvisation and variation within set boundaries.

"A recent development in my work is its application in large-scale public projects funded by percent-for-art programs."

--Cheonae Kim

Kim is represented by Klein Art Works (Chicago), Margaret Thatcher Projects (New York), and several other galleries. In 1993 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in painting; this year, she held a prestigious MacDowell Artists Residency in New Hampshire and a studio residency at Loft Nota Bene in Spain. She was named Outstanding Artist for 2003 by SIUC's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. For more of Kim's work, see her web site.