About

Amy Kim is a contemporary visual artist based in Melbourne Australia. She creates art to discover all the unknowns in herself and the world around her. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to Melbourne in 2000 to study fine art at the Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne majoring in painting. She has worked across a range of creative industries after graduating including theatre design, art directing, interior styling, graphic design and teaching.

Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and have been collected acoross the world.

The Artistic Reality Of Amy Kim by Bernadette Sanfilippo

Depicting organic matter via idiosyncratic means, Amy Kim’s work integrates what is real with the surreal. Through the inclusion of interlocking geometric shapes and bold, tenacious colour usage, figures, faces, scenes and settings are given rise, characterised and interpreted. While the work is primarily abstract in form, the meaning is not, as the multidimensional condition of being is rendered and the harmony of life’s inequalities are observed and examined.

Combining the perfect, congruous blend of constructivism, fauvism, expressionism and surrealism, Amy’s work pays homage to the commonalities that exist between these incredibly ground breaking and distinguishing styles. Between the hard-edged forms, line work, colours that concurrently contrast and compliment and artistic subject portrayal, lies the impacts of French fauvism artist Henri Matisse, Italian expressionist Amedeo Modigliani and American colour field painter Paul Kremer. What results are highly perceptive, multilayered, intelligent artistic expressions.

Amy’s initial ideas are largely associated with daily living and the scope of life and her works are frequent reflections of her observations and emotional reactions to these occurrences. Over time, this has led to the development of a diverse series of works, that individually survey and narrate an extent of notions and concepts. Utilising sketches to recall the thought and colours to illuminate the feeling, intuition then proceeds to guide the process and becomes the primary driver of her brush on the canvas.

At its fundamental core, Amy Kim’s art highlights the perfect imbalances that exist within our humanised environment. Her juxtaposition of patterns and formations describe the polarities between resilience and vulnerability, symmetry and disproportion, essence and presence. Through the recurring employment of surrealistic elements, her work is afforded the luxury of being able to concomitantly underscore and deviate from reality, so as to render imagery that unveils life’s ironic elegance.