BLISS

KIWHA LEE BLOCMAN

Bliss for me is knowing and embracing who you are. Bliss is going after dreams but also having the privilege to seek knowledge of all kinds, both past and present. Bliss is in the process, not the destination. The two works selected for this exhibition represent this belief. When the pandemic struck, I allowed myself to explore other parts of myself and follow haptic needs that only grew during this time. I think my work has always questioned conventions as we’ve always known them. The bliss I experience today is in more consciously delving into my own lived experience through personal research, wider art history, poetics of abstraction and deeper connections.

- KIWHA LEE BLOCMAN

KIWHA LEE BLOCMAN

Manifold

2020

10 x 8 inches

Ink and acid-free paper pulp on burlap and board

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KIWHA LEE BLOCMAN

Manifold

2020

10 x 8 inches

Ink and acid-free paper pulp on burlap and board

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KIWHA LEE BLOCMAN

Shifter

2019

Oil on canvas

54 x 40 x 2 inches

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KIWHA LEE BLOCMAN

Shifter

2019

Oil on canvas

54 x 40 x 2 inches

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KIWHA LEE BLOCMAN

Kiwha Lee Blocman is a visual artist based in New York City. Her work speaks to visual perception, spatial relations and the dismantling of pictorial hierarchy. She questions what Painting is in the entangled world that is the 21st century and the cultural perceptions it can challenge in an increasingly siloed world. Nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2018, she has exhibited at Fergus McCaffrey (Chelsea), Ortega y Gasset Projects, Deanna Evans Projects, Far x Wide (Brooklyn), Columbia University’s Leroy Neiman Gallery, 205 Hudson Gallery, Mother Gallery, Collar Works (New York), and Chan+Hori Gallery (Singapore) among others. Her work has been featured prominently in publications like Vulture, The Business Times, Asian Art News and Harper's BAZAAR. Kiwha studied at Columbia University as well as the University of NSW previously and will receive her MFA from Hunter College in 2022.

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