I, Sunflower

Kyung-Me's ink paintings of sunflowers, exploring spontaneity and emotional surrender after years of controlled precision.

Why go

The artist's artist statement reveals a deliberate shift from technical control to intuitive mark-making, using the sunflower as a vessel for processing joy, pain, and hope over two years of sustained practice—a rare window into process-driven abstraction.

What to expect

A series of ink paintings on paper featuring sunflowers rendered in black and yellow, each work capturing different emotional states and moments of the artist's internal experience.

Things to know

• Artist received MFA from Yale School of Art in 2018.
• Work is held in collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Magasin III in Stockholm.
• Received the Picture Collection Artist Fellowship at The New York Public Library in 2022.
• Artist teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and New York University.
• This exhibition marks a deliberate shift from earlier ink drawings to a more spontaneous, intuitive practice.
• Two-year sustained series exploring a single subject across multiple emotional and spiritual states.