Society for Contemporary Art Collectors Sale | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Society for Contemporary Art Collectors Sale | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Brian Byun
Lonely Goosebumps
Lot Closed
September 29, 02:30 PM GMT
Estimate
2,800 - 3,800 USD
Lot Details
Description
Brian Byun
b. 1990
Lonely Goosebumps
Signed and dated 2022.
acrylic and colored pencil on canvas
11 by 14 in. (28 by 35.56 cm.)
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Courtesy of the artist and Kate Werble Gallery, New York
Brian Byun draws on the environment and influences of his childhood in his work. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and now a naturalized citizen of the United States, Byun melds personal and national symbols representative of South Korean and American culture in richly toned abstract paintings that evoke the duality of his lived identity. A range of objects including forms found in traditional Korean ceramics, animals, and the everyday objects of life become points of departure, which Byun then develops into an abstract and deeply personal geometric vocabulary of forms that occur and recur throughout his works.
Exhibitions of Byun’s work have been held at 205 Hudson st, New York; Kenektid Gallery, New York; and Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago among others.