Building Frieze LA's 'Focus' Is a Challenge for Curators and Galleries
As the art market grows ever more lopsided, the challenge of putting together sections for emerging galleries, like Frieze Focus, gets more difficult.
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As the art market grows ever more lopsided, the challenge of putting together sections for emerging galleries, like Frieze Focus, gets more difficult.
Miami is currently the center of the art universe.
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
LOS ANGELES -- Ken Gun Min is a daydreamer.
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.