AletheiaFebruary 24 - March 2, 2026opening February 25, 12-4pm1332 ¾ Miller Drive, Los Angeles, California 90069
Pictured:I/eye, 1994-2026photograph, glass eye, acrylic and gesso on panel, MDO painted shelf in Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace20 x 44 1/2 x 6 inches
Pictured:Josef KramhöllerO. T., 1999Oil and collage on plywood42.5 x 30.7 inches108 x 78 cm.
The painter Hyunseok Kim employs modernist and surrealist traditions into today’s global, image-saturated context-creating works that feel simultaneously archetypal and idiosyncratically personal. His figural distortions are at once unsettling and whimsical. Kim’s practice often probes the uncanny within the ordinary: familiar objects, animals, and figures are rendered legible yet destabilized through painterly playful and deliberately naive distortion.
Howard Reyes McLarenSelf questioning, 2025Oil, latex on linen8 x 10 x 1 inches20.3 x 25.4 x 2.54 cm.
Howard Reyes McLaren Self help, 2025 Oil, latex on linen 8 x 10 x 1inches 20.3 x 25.4 x 2.54 cm.
Howard Reyes McLaren Self slop, 2025 Oil, latex on linen 8 x 10 x 1 inches 20.3 x 25.4 x 2.54
Howard Reyes McLaren Self head, 2025 Oil, latex on linen 8 x 10 x 1 inches 20.3 x 25.4 x 2.54
Hyunseok KimHead with color, 2025Oil on canvas9.4 x 13.0 in (24 x 33cm)Private collection
Steven WarwickHOUSE, 2024Plastic model house, audio, text on paper, plinth,Dimensions variableEdition of 3 + 1 AP
Howard Reyes McLarenSelf harm, 2025Oil, latex on linen8 x 10 x 1 inches20.3 x 25.4 x 2.54 cm.
Howard Reyes McLaren Self halo, 2025 Oil, latex on linen 8 x 10 x 1inches 20.3 x 25.4 x 2.54 cm.
Howard Reyes McLaren Self help II, 2025 Oil, latex on linen 8 x 10 x 1 inches 20.3 x 25.4 x 2.54 cm.
Hyunseok Kim Repetition, 2025 Oil on canvas 17.9 x 20 in (45.5 x 53 cm)
Hyunseok Kim Scarecrow with clouds, 2025 Oil on canvas 46 x 46 in (117 x 117 cm)
Hyunseok Kim Green Shirts, 2025 Oil on canvas 46 x 46 in (117 x 117 cm)
Hyunseok Kim Scarecrow, 2016 oil on canvas 24 x 28.7 in (61 x 73 cm)
Tv with a dog , 2025 Oil on canvas 46 x 46 in. (117 x 117 cm)
Hyunseok Kim is as a contemporary painter who employs modernist and surrealist traditions into today’s global, image-saturated context—creating works that feel simultaneously archetypal and idiosyncratically personal. His figural distortions are at once unsettling and whimsical.
Two in the ivy at the mouth of the cave, 2023 Canvas on canvas 40 x 38 in. (102 x 97 cm)
When humans contemplate the human condition, we draw from the very fibers of our being, projecting meaning back onto our lived experience. In much the same way, it is the threads reflecting upon themselves that give these canvas-on-canvas compositions their own life.