Casey Kaplan
Cindy Ji Hye Kim’s solo exhibition “Saboteur: A Prehistoric Wish” is newly reviewed by Andrew Russeth in The New Times within the section “What to See in Galleries in September”.
“A knife enters the throat of a porcine creature, shadowy figures wield axes, and a human skeleton (one of a few here) attacks vines with a sickle. It is a time of culling and harvesting, of preparation for winter, in Cindy Ji Hye Kim’s unsettling and characteristically masterful new paintings.
They were inspired by medieval calendars that present agrarian scenes, though Kim’s are dreamlike and supremely dark, a panoply of blacks and grays conjured with acrylic, chalk, charcoal, pastel and graphite. It takes time to decipher them.“