PARADIGM SHIFT: The Passing
Exhibition: May 17th - June 27th, 2026
Opening Reception: May 15th, (4-7pm)
In this focused two-person exhibition featuring the work of Jinwoo Kim in collaboration with Wonsook Kim, A Paradigm Shift: The Passing, transformation unfolds not as a singular event, but as a layered condition—one that exists simultaneously in matter and in human experience.
At first glance, the works appear to occupy entirely different worlds. One emerges from industrial material—stainless steel, engineered motion, and controlled systems—yet resists fixity, dissolving into an entangled, almost organic presence. Structure here is no longer rigid; it breathes, bends, and redefines itself. What was once constructed becomes something alive. In contrast, the other work turns inward. Through figuration and narrative stillness, it reflects on the human condition—on vulnerability, memory, and the quiet persistence of being. The figures inhabit a space that feels both temporal and suspended, as though caught between past and becoming. Together, these two works form a dialogue between outer systems and inner states. Between what is built and what is felt. Between the visible order of the world and the invisible shifts within the self.
This exhibition proposes that a paradigm shift is not only structural, technological, or external—it is deeply personal. It occurs in silence, in tension, and in the subtle transformation of perception. In the space between structure and being, something begins to change. This exhibition is not about change we see— but about the shift we slowly become.
This exhibition is possible with the partial support of HB Asset, 4work, Dongyang Laser, Korea Sign and Samsung ENG.
About the artists: Wonsook Kim
Wonsook Kim was born Busan, Korea in 1953 and came to U.S. in 1972. She is renown for her authentic, exuberant narratives in paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, multi media and installations, which have been shown around the world by museums and galleries since 1985. Kim works and resides in New York and Bloomington with her husband, Thomas Clement. Her copious, engaging, contemporary works result from her lifetime experiences in Korea and the United States.
About the artists: Jinwoo Kim
Jinwoo KIM is a painter and installation artist, born in Andong, Korea. He has a BA and MA in Art Education, School of Fine Arts, KyungHee University. He is a full time artist who has had eight private exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions including at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Seoul Art Center. He has been working in the field of kinetic art, creating steel robotic figures under the theme of Portrait of New Human Beings. He has been art director at Samsung Transportation Museum and lecturer at Kyung Hee University. He has won two prizes in the Grand Art Exhibition of Korea and recently one of his art works, “The Flying Man-4,” was bought by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. As a Nieman fellow affiliate he audited courses in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and in the School of Engineering at MIT. He also customizes jeeps. His hobby is playing amateur baseball. He is married with two daughters.
