06/09/2026
Riverside Gallery announces a solo exhibition of Keunhee Park, titled, "MAZE." The exhibition will run from June 19 to July 6, 2026, with an opening reception on June 20, from 5 to 7 PM.
Keunhee Park is a glass artist from South Korea, who received their BFA from the Namseoul University in 2006. His glass sculptures merge different materials and glass types for contrast, composition, and meaning. The materials, which include wood and glass that varies in terms of transparency, surface texture, and blur, construct a labyrinth that represents life itself. Through glass and wood sculpture, the artist represents a series of twists, turns, and intersections that challenge our sense of direction and understanding and reflect the complexities of personal narratives and sense of being.
Park’s sculptures deal with passages that are either concealed or revealed, as well as paths that are hidden behind other routes and can only be seen or imagined by rotating the angle at which the sculpture is seen relative to the viewer’s position. This interplay of transparency and overlaying of forms suggests a complex innerworking of human psychology which seeks to reveal or manifest strengths as much as conceal in terms of the vulnerabilities, and vice versa. The internal logic of Park’s sculptures, which most of the times bend and cut angularly at 90 degrees, suggest an endless expanse and spatial continuum of infinitely varying units and segments, which the sculpture cannot fully represent due to the material limitations. And these angular forms may suggest the grid-like layout of the neurons in the human brain, as much as they represent the endless maze of human consciousness and experience.
Notably, Park began studies at the Hong-ik University’s graduate program with a scholarship in 2008, but he left after 2 semesters to pursue art on his own in the United States. Park also participated in “The U.N. Headquarters Exhibition for a World Peace” at Gallery SinSang (South Korea) in 2009 and “40 Under 40: Young Artist National Showcase” (Maryland Hall, MD) in 2020.
