Sunday Paintings

Byron Kim has long distilled his approach to life and art in a conceptual practice marked by studies of colour and abstraction.

Byron Kim has long distilled his approach to life and art in a conceptual practice marked by studies of colour and abstraction. ‘Sunday Paintings’ is an ongoing series of modest square paintings of the sky, created by Kim every Sunday since 2001. Carrying his prepared panels with him as he travels, Kim paints a portrait of the sky each week, then inscribes a few momentary thoughts of the day, dating each panel with his location. Both a record of the sky and his life, these paintings serve as a diaristic record and collection of time. The series emerged from Kim’s encounter with the work of Chuang Tze, a Taoist philosopher who wrote about the relationship of the infinite to the infinitesimal. ‘Sunday Paintings’ embody a personal cosmology that contrasts the everyday against the everything. This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 12