Mars1 and David Choong Lee May 17, 2008

Mars1 and David Choong Lee
Recent Painting and Sculpture
May 17-June 21, 2008
Reception: Saturday, May 17, 2008, 7-10pm
Bucheon is pleased to present a two person show for San Francisco artists David Choong Lee and Mars1 aka Mario Martinez. The ambitious show of mixed media painting and sculpture will open Friday, May 16, with a reception for the artists from 7-10pm and run through June 21, 2008.

David arrived in San Francisco from Seoul, Korea in 1993 with little money and speaking very little English but found a way to study art. While studying he lived downtown where he was surrounded by homeless people who became the focus for his painting for many years. He used his formal drawing skills to capture very moving portraits.

It has been exciting to see David's work develop as he embraced the local art scene and learned the language and culture. He also took a great interest in the underground music scene, and started d.j.ing as a new way to express himself. It is reflected clearly in his choice of materials like cigar boxes, his narratives and the lyrical quality of his work.

Mario's work has covered a lot of territory from spray paint graffiti as a young teenager to creating a series of wonderfully, strange vinyl figures that are shown internationally. His exquisitely detailed paintings seem to hover between abstraction and highly imaginative,science fiction like landscapes. They are painted in a labor intensive process, through layers,and sanding and weeks of exploring new directions out of his active imagination.

Mario will be showing for the first time his vinyl figures transformed into bronze along with a new series of paintings. Both artists collaborated on books of the work, and have been actively showing throughout the country in different venues.

No charge.

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