Ken Gun Min is a daydreamer. "I have one foot in reality and the other in fantasy," the painter says as he sits on the floor of his studio in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles and sews beads onto a finished canvas. "I have a fantasy-oriented brain. I am constantly daydreaming and creating stories
Painter Ken Gun Min, who mixes oil painting and Korean pigments with collected beads and vintage crystal on raw canvas, reckons with cultural assimilation and identity in L.A.
Painter Ken Gun Min, who mixes oil painting and Korean pigments with collected beads and vintage crystal on raw canvas, reckons with cultural assimilation and identity in L.A.