Seung Yul Oh: Daradaradarada
1 February 1 - 1 March 2008

Starkwhite is pleased to present Daradaradarada, an installation by Seung Yul Oh, from 1 February to 1 March 2008.

Oh works in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, sound and video, often combining them in quirky installations of objects staged as improvisations on a chaotic, indecipherable theme. He glides from hard-edged sculpture to representational painting, from painterly abstraction to 3D anthropomorphism, with humour as the unifying theme.

With Daradaradarada Oh has worked over the gallery space with wax, dribbling it down the street front windows, creating an opaque façade, and the two central columns, transforming them into oversized candles with a subterranean quality. Within the altered space Oh has placed paintings with his trademark curvy, alimentary forms, a large lightbox with soft, slightly out-of-focus motifs, three 'painterly' videos presented on flat screen LCDs, along with floor-based objects resembling 3D versions of the anthropomorphic forms in his paintings. Compared to other Oh exhibitions this one is pared back, less chaotic, but at the same time retaining the improvisational flavour of his earlier installations.

Seung Yul Oh completed his Master of Fine Arts at Auckland University in 2005. His work has been represented in: The secret life of paint, curated by Justin Paton, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2007); Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand, curated by Heather Galbraith, City Gallery Wellington (2007); 5 4 3 2 1, curated by Ngahiraka Mason, Auckland Art Gallery (2006); Bearing, with curator Emma Bugden, Te Tuhi The Mark (2006); Break: Construct, curated by Rhana Devonport, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (2006); CHEW CHEW Tongue, Starkwhite (2005); Compelled: Annual New Artists Show, curated by Rhana Devonport, Artspace (2005); and Snake oil, Recent Acquisitions from the Chartwell Collection, curated by Robert Leonard, Auckland Art Gallery (2005). He has also won several art awards, including the Waikato National Art Award in 2004 and the Goldwater Art Award in 2003.

Located in New Zealand on Auckland's Karangahape Road, Starkwhite presents a programme of artists' projects, solo shows, independently curated exhibitions and occasional forays into new music and other interdisciplinary practices. Starkwhite also represents artists from New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific rim.

Please contact the gallery for photographs or further information on this exhibition.

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