CMay Gallery is pleased to announce Point of View, a solo exhibition featuring work from the artist Bahk Seon Ghi. Included in this exhibition will be sculptures that highlight the artist’s deft manipulation of space, form, and perspective.

Bahk’s floating charcoal works accumulate into forms that we perceive as familiar objects, delicately suspended on the edge of existence and obliteration. Likewise, the artist’s Rorschach-like speculative drawings for these sculptures, recalling the goopy intimations of lava lamps, present questions of how an object takes form through our own filters of perspective and memory.

In “Point of View”, a series of crisply sculpted geometric forms, Bahk Seon Ghi gifts his works with a corporeality that represents the object and a surreality that obstructs the object. This art of suggestion makes the works especially seductive; we can only have them when we are engaged in an active practice of looking. By forming an object without physically intervening, we can see that perception is a function of creation.

Bahk Seon Ghi was born and educated in South Korea, graduating from Chung-Ang University. There he majored in fine arts sculpture, eventually traveling to Milan to complete his studies at Accademia di Belle Arti Brera. Bahk Seon Ghi has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. In 2006, Bahk was awarded the 9th Kim Jong Young Sculpture prize. He continues his work at his studio in Seoul, Korea.