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This most recent body of paintings was inspired by the artist’s personal archive of vintage figurines. The painting surface has been rendered to abandon the vestiges of brush strokes, echoing the glaze techniques used on porcelain figurines.
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① Artwork:

Aura

This most recent body of paintings was inspired by the artist’s personal archive of vintage figurines. The painting surface has been rendered to abandon the vestiges of brush strokes, echoing the glaze techniques used on porcelain figurines.

This cropped composition depicts a figurine of a young nude woman who gets magnified on an isolated angle, drawing attention to the figure’s body language and emotions.

Dabin Ahn is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist. In these artworks, Ahn examines his inclination toward the artistic history of these old trinkets while re-contextualizing them with different techniques and materials.

Specs:

9 inches
10 inches

③ Artist:

Dabin Ahn

Dabin Ahn is a painter, sculptor and installation artist. His most recent body of paintings and sculptures was inspired by the artist’s personal archive of vintage figurines. In these works, Ahn examines his inclination toward the artistic history of these objects while re-contextualizing them with different techniques and materials. The artist reduces these paintings to magnified compositions of isolated angles, drawing attention to the figurine’s body language and emotions through the magic of painting.

Dabin Ahn was born in 1988 in Seoul, Korea, and currently lives in Chicago, IL. He received his BFA (2016) and MFA (2020) in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ahn’s recent solo exhibitions include ONE-OFF, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Liminal Fictions, Selenas Mountain, Ridgewood, NY (2021); and Apocrypha, curated by Stephanie Cristello, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago IL (2020).

His recent group exhibitions include Best Practices, curated by Evan Gruzis, Edgewood College Gallery, Madison, WI (2022); The Ground Floor Biennial, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2020); and The Green Gallery Works, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2020).

Dabin Ahn:
Aura, 2023
Oil on linen
10.0 × 9.0 inches /