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source: washingtonpost

There’s Zen quality to the art of Chul Hyun Ahn. It’s apparent even in the title of his current show, “Illuminated Void,” at Baltimore’s C. Grimaldis Gallery, which suggests a Buddhist koan: What does nothingness look like?

Made with mirrors and fluorescent tubes, Ahn’s ingenious lightbox sculptures resemble openings onto mysterious shafts and passageways that lead . . . well, where, exactly? Maybe not outward, but within. Read my review of Ahn’s uncommonly deep show, and check out a gallery of additional images after the jump.
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source: newyorkseoul

Chul Hyun Ahn is a member of a group of young light artists including Olafur Eliasson, Ivan Navarro, Spencer Finch, and Leo Villareal. Ahn creates meditations on zen notions of the infinite and the void which distinguishes Ahn’s oeuvre from other artists working with light. Ahn’s multiple on-going sculpture series including “Forked Series” and “Tunnel Series” systematically explore the limitations of space and optics. Hilarie M. Sheets, contributing editor of ARTnews who also writes regularly for The New York Times, Art In America, and Art + Auction, said his work is “At once thrilling and ominous, it suggests a rabbit hole to another world—underwater, outer space, afterlife—or journey to the unknown, the kind of leap of faith involved in the artist’s own passage to an unfamiliar country and language.” As a pillar in the resurgence of light art, “Ahn creates sculptures utilizing light, color and illusion as physical representations of his investigation of infinite space.” Ahn lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland where he is represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery.