MK the Artist

 Painting the Taste
-Meghan Kim

When I first started to paint “delicious painting series”, my goal was to paint the taste, not only the actual sense of taste but also the visual and pictorial taste in art. Just like everyone tastes of same food differently, it applies same for the esthetic judgments of art. Everyone has a different taste for looking at a piece of art.
 Greatly influenced by Cubistic ideas, it is my personal taste to choose geometric elements to build up a new image or break down an image to form a new image. Instead of focusing on specific objects or ideas to paint, I normally choose a theme or subjects that interest me and set up a motif to paint for a certain period of the time and move on. Sometimes I do make series. Delicious painting project is one of them. What I try to achieve is the consistent taste. It is not the image I paint but the picturesque style that makes my paintings recognizable as my own.
 Simple, geometric, abstract, contrast, solid, structured, graphic, colour harmony, puzzling, futuristic, illusionary space and modern; all these words describe what I paint. However, modernity is not the ultimate answer. Once a more shocking and newer idea comes out, what is modern may not be modern anymore. Perhaps modernity is just the desire to seek for something special because the taste changes and evolves.  

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art & Design w/ distiction, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB 2001
Publishing Certificate, Mount Royal College, Calgary AB 2008
Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB 1996-1997

Exhibition 

09.09.2007     MK the Artist, Studio Open House Exhibition, Calgary
06-09.2006     Collages, The Korean Gallery, Art Central, Calgary
12.2005-02.2006        Metamorfosa Gallery, Art Space, Calgary
04.06-09.2005            Ehwa Alumni Association Exhibition
                                   Ehwa Women's University SamSung Education Centre, Seoul                        
11.28-12.06.2004         The 4th Wind Project: Thanksgiving Gallery Cafe Spring, Korea
08.14.2004     Korean Day Festival Art Exhibition, Calgary
12.15-19.2003           Korean Artists Who are in their 20's: The Wind
                                   University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO U.S.A.
05.01-13.2001            BFA Grad Show, University of Alberta FAB Gallery, Edmonton
1996   Awards Show, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary
1995   Calgary Stampede Art Show,Round Up Centre, Calgary