CARVALHO PARK is pleased to present Mimi Jung: The Subsuming Ellipse, marking the Seoul-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s second exhibition with the gallery and her first solo show in New York.
The history of modernist abstraction has offered artists two distinct modes, the autobiographic gesture as individual, against geometry, the iconic. With conscious and intuitive persuasion, Mimi Jung’s new woven compositions marry these two seemingly distinct poles. Jung is of a trajectory of artists who have utilized geometric shapes for their emotive possibilities, materializing a potent and personal formal language that is counterpoint to and in tandem with this dialectic. Mark Rothko’s ungraspable, transient rectangles come to mind, or Robert Motherwell’s tension-fraught ovals in his Elegies, even the delicate tonal shifts of Agnes Martin’s grids.
