Courtney Kim & Her Naughty Lips

I'm on TV

2009-06-08T23:37:00.000-07:00

Basically I was saying " I'm from Australia and I dont get to drink much Korean traditional rice wine. This place allows us to have well-being traditional Korean food and wine within contemporary european vibes "

After we did this interview they gave us free Gyoza dish! Awesome!

Link from here

Location : Apgujung Rodeo, Seooul, Korea

Exhibition Review

2008-12-21T18:32:00.000-08:00

Too Sweet For Mine – exhibition by Courtney Kim
upstairs at La Niche Cafe, 73 Smith Street, Fitzroy, presented by Mee Gallery
review by Luke Stickels 2008, all rights reserved

With so many small scenes informed by strong, often ambivalent emotional responses, it is easy to assume that Courtney Kim’s is a glimpse into the heart and mind of modern femininity. Make this assumption at your own peril. Kim’s playful recurring characters, imagery and tropes are endlessly tweaked, reapplied and recombined. The result is a complete blow-out at the level of meaning, leaving Kim’s restless wit as the only constant feature from work to work.

Kim depicts many staples of girlhood fantasy, against negative space that is lonely without being oppressive: dolls, bows, brushes, mirrors, flowers, underpants, gentle animals, ice-creams and boys. Kim seems to undermine these images even as she presents them with a certain celebratory euphoria. The icecreams are dropped and melted, drawing unnerving trails of ants and evoking a precarious sexual desire. A faun lies next to its antlers, which are in turn left next to a disposable, handheld computer game. The boys can be absurd; they can be touching; they can be Darth Vader. The boys can be killed. The boys are never men, despite stylised patterns of body hair, which can often be found on the girls too.

If Western visual and fashion media depict androgyny as subtle, ambivalent gender characteristics, Kim’s recurring character, takes her androgyny from much stronger, even gaudy, referential flags: not just stubble, but an elaborately twirled moustache; not just her chunky, masculine body shape, but whorls of arse-crack hair—even as she shapes her fringe just so. It is hard to see any of it specifically as either a sensory affront, an earnest, joyful nostalgia, or ironic manipulation. Kim’s titles suggest a certain amount of ironic awareness, often providing a surprising and suggestive narrative context for the image, for example a sweet image of a girl hugging a disinterested cow, entitled “You’re Alive and Look Yummy” (2008). Her materials suggest a more earnest joy for visual beauty and memory: pencil, pen, Korean calligraphy ink and pigment colour ink.

Kim says her paintings are like a diary, coming from her “cruelest imaginings”, escapist fantasies – often to protect something more vulnerable, but also cherished memories, observations and emotional responses to her world. When she says her paintings are “immunisations against [her] broken heart,” I believe her, even as I realise that, in my conviction, the joke may somehow be on me.

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Luke Stickels is an author and freelance writer.
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We've tried to submit it to B*** and I****** magazine but the editors are assholes, everyone was lazy and not responding well from being in holidays and all that. I guess my blog will be the only place publishing this great review by Luke. oh well that's oke.

Portable End of Year Party

2008-12-07T18:28:00.001-08:00

Come and celebrate the end of 2008 with us!

Friday 19th December

5pm - 9pm

38-44 Cambridge Street, Collingwood

Featuring DJ FLIP

Photos from the Gallery on 3rd NYC

2008-12-07T18:13:00.000-08:00

And my cousin Eddie standing next to my artworks...he he

Opening night & new works

2008-12-03T20:57:00.001-08:00

More photos on Flickr

I killed the sweet boy

Too Sweet For Mine

Dear friends, please find attached

Kind hearted Mr. VaderYou're alive and look yummy

I'll give you all my heart

Join Mee gallery facebook group here
All 22 new prints will be available soon

contact@courtneykim.com

Threadless ants

2008-11-18T17:49:00.000-08:00

If you score 5 on my t-shirt and comment how cute it is I'd be really really happy.

http://www.werd.threadless.com/submission/185635/Too_Sweet_For_Mine

Benefit Art Show in NYC

2008-10-28T15:18:00.000-07:00

I'm so happy for being involve in this New York benefit art show.

If you're around the Big Apple, here is the exhibition detail :D

Galleria on Third and Live 365 Art welcomes you to a Benefit Art

Show to help children in need around the world. Proceeds will

be donated to The Smile Train. The exhibits will be Paintings

and Photography.

Exhibit Dates: November 6th - November 13th 2008

Opening Reception with artists:

Myrto Glarou, Antonia Andriotti, Chris Lo Presti Jr

Special Guest Rafal Olbinski.

November 6th from 6:00 - 9.00 PM

The exhibit features work by local and International artists: Antonia

Andrioti, Myrto Glarou, Andreas Kassapis a.k.a Ark, Courtney Kim,

Chris Lo Presti Jr, Matina Mavronikola, Rafal Olbinski, Flavio Parisi,

Maria Pavlaki, George Pinas, Marc Tetro and Rudy Zacharia.

We would like to thank The Smile Train for partnering with Galleria

on Third to ensure that all donations will help many children in

need of cleft lip & palate surgery. If you would like more details

regarding this organisation please visit www.smiletrain.org

Galleria on Third

529 Third Avenue

Between 35th and 36th st.

www.galleriaonthird.com

Telephone 212.683.2886

Upcomming show 'Too Sweet For Mine'

2008-10-22T15:34:00.001-07:00

I am lucky enough to hold an exhibition at the Frenchman's Cafe because I love Frenchman's hot chocolate.

I am showing a range of my artworks; curated by Mee gallery, on the theme of sweet . Maybe it's too sweet for your rotten teeth. Lots of artificial colours, sticky texture, I like it a lot.

Come for drinks at the opening, enjoy sweets and feel my sweet unshaved love.

Opening detail
When: 28th Nov 2008 6:oopm-8:00pm
Where: 73 Smith st. Fitzroy, Vic, Australia

See you there ~

The Real Look

2008-09-09T19:29:00.000-07:00

My heart is trembling

Sad puppet

2008-09-09T19:27:00.000-07:00

그만 했으면 좋겠어요.
내맘데로 안되는거 -

Pencil

2008-09-09T19:25:00.000-07:00

Pencil and watercolor -

모란

2008-09-02T07:00:00.000-07:00

꽃이 나를 감싸다-
나는 꽃이 된다.

자연스러운것
진짜는 멀까

Can't stay out of chocolate

2008-08-26T06:56:00.000-07:00

Naughty Lips

2008-05-18T19:24:00.000-07:00

Damn it

Pretty ones

2008-05-05T18:27:00.000-07:00

Yes, I like pretty ones and ugly ones can not touch me! boong!

Kimchi Soup

2008-05-05T18:25:00.000-07:00

Darling.. don't burn my heart

Lady and a cat

2008-04-17T02:00:00.000-07:00

Sunshine beach

2008-04-15T21:03:00.000-07:00

Stop following me you naught waves.

I killed the sweet boy.

2008-04-14T01:23:00.001-07:00

I don't know what I've done.
It was my ice cream.

egi

2008-04-11T00:22:00.001-07:00

cresanthemum eun ne kuh

2008-04-11T00:21:00.001-07:00

flying chicken

2008-04-07T01:40:00.000-07:00

Ah....want to go this place.
Awesome fried chicken , Carrot start treasure hunt.
Lots of fun, and nice Subi oppa :)

Shoot myself

2008-03-31T06:01:00.000-07:00

59 Bourke St.
Unlimited bullets. da da da da da

Collection

2008-03-31T05:56:00.000-07:00

Mrs. Bobaba's Contemporary Hair Style

My rolla skateo

2008-03-03T15:51:00.000-08:00

Had these about 16 years ago.
My dad bought them from Germany.
I could adjust it to my feet size.
They aren't that fast enough so I didn't get to fall down.
And they make carrraaaang carraaaang noise when I ride.
So annoying. But miss them. Hello nice to meet you

...

2008-02-20T22:08:00.000-08:00

The Ultimate Love Buttons

2008-02-20T21:33:00.000-08:00

Facebook app

2008-02-20T21:23:00.000-08:00

Character designs for Poke Ultimate facebook application.

And a Happy New Year

2008-01-06T04:29:00.001-08:00

This year is the year of me.
The Year of rat.

I made some wishes.

A kite can fly up high.

Happy new year!

Not listening

2008-01-06T04:16:00.000-08:00

Do not whisper to me.
I don't listen to anyone.
I can pretend listening but I'm a selfish lady.
Figured that, that's the only way I could survive.

Kamagi

2008-01-06T04:14:00.000-08:00

The bird

muje

2008-01-06T01:06:00.000-08:00

Taro chick manjus

2007-12-16T02:35:00.000-08:00

Manju chicks
line up
Luv luv manju
papa mama bebe

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I'd like to put one in your mouth.

Heart missing part 2

2007-12-13T04:26:00.000-08:00

Heart missing

2007-12-10T06:06:00.000-08:00

Can't find where my heart is.

Collatara Digital X-mas Party

2007-12-05T05:29:00.000-08:00

Em3rge is holding its first X-mas party at the Sahara Café and I'm showing 5 of my illustrations with my other friends.

It will also become part of the first issue of our upcoming Collatara e-zine on the web, and all the works collected on the night will be collated into a book which will be auctioned at a future em3rge event.

12th of Dec
Level 3 , 301 Swanston St. Melbourne

Don't let go....

2007-11-25T04:56:00.001-08:00

Black Bird

2007-11-12T21:43:00.000-08:00

Please go away, black bird. I don't like you anymore but I'm becoming you.

Scribble.

2007-10-22T07:34:00.000-07:00

I started with a scribble and turned into this.

Water Colour and pen on Paper

I'm Too Shy

2007-10-22T00:33:00.000-07:00

Around you.

Experimenta

2007-10-13T22:26:00.000-07:00

Awesome lab tour at Baker institute where people grow hearts.
And I get to have a tiny bit of his heart.

Actual Painting - Grey paper, Acrylic, Colour pencils
Initial drawing - Pen, Colour pencils

Yuri

2007-10-06T22:58:00.001-07:00

Yuri- Acrylic on Canvas.

Dasogot

2007-10-06T22:55:00.000-07:00

Like always she's been

loveyum

2007-09-30T04:18:00.000-07:00

On my neck

Copy Me

2007-09-27T20:58:00.001-07:00

One for me, one for you, one for him, and one for her

Run

2007-09-27T20:07:00.000-07:00

I'll run to you, wherever you are

tokki mask

2007-09-09T18:40:00.000-07:00

wooo wa da da da da da....

My spring

2007-09-02T01:07:00.001-07:00

I took my cat a walk. But yumyummy didn't seem like want to walk, lying down towards the sun instead.
Tomorrow I'm going to buy a pair of red shoes.
Hello, spring?

YumYummy

2007-09-02T01:02:00.001-07:00

YumYummy loves me, so do I.

Tiger women

2007-09-02T00:16:00.000-07:00

I'm coming to get you!!!!!!!

Lace

2007-08-22T20:49:00.001-07:00

I remember, done this when I was in Joel's class, and I was so bored.

paper piano

2007-08-19T05:53:00.001-07:00

I have a piano, I can't see it, I can't hear it.
And I'm practising a song that I want to play for my boyfriend.

New Pics

2007-07-30T20:05:00.000-07:00

Photos taken by Suk Kwan
2007
Contax n1, Popra 400 film, No photoshoped.

東方古洋利

2007-07-30T16:58:00.000-07:00

My love Venus

2007-07-24T08:05:00.001-07:00

사랑에 비너스~

좃도 쒸팔!
fark it!

Am I invisible to you?

2007-07-24T07:35:00.001-07:00

Bye dear

goog googgy

2007-07-23T00:38:00.001-07:00

scratch my back scratch my back.

very well...

2007-07-19T03:48:00.000-07:00

It is true.
I don't look like you.
But i never knew

come to me!

2007-07-19T03:46:00.001-07:00

booooo

iPod bg

2007-07-16T01:16:00.001-07:00

Ah....i love my iPod so much.
yum yum

Pesto love

2007-07-12T00:30:00.001-07:00

can you stay away from me?
I'm all over green.
My heart is so pesto.
Tony? let's get some pesto on pasta
_______________________________________________________

I've only tried pesto once in my life.
but i'm addicted

I Think You are Cute but...

2007-07-12T00:26:00.000-07:00

Badum Chi!!!

Aw~ So Naughty

2007-07-05T21:33:00.001-07:00

^________ ^

Kind hearted Megatron

2007-07-05T21:25:00.000-07:00

Don't worry l.. I'll be always with you.

save sunday and you will be mine :)

2007-07-05T21:15:00.001-07:00

Maruchi power

2007-07-05T05:31:00.001-07:00

Tae Kwon Dong ja
Supa Natural Power Maruchi Arachi

I Failed

2007-07-05T05:28:00.000-07:00

I failed at Jap Chae

Actually not...it just looked really bad :(

Old painting

2007-07-03T11:24:00.000-07:00

Found this from my old folder .
Water painted at the Everland (zoo) when I was 15.
This was for Samsung student art competition which I won the silver prize :)
ah~ I just love pandas

Draculas.. cabaret restorant

2006-12-12T04:56:00.000-08:00

12. 12.2007

Cornelius

2006-12-12T04:53:00.000-08:00

7.12.2006

Sound + Vision
The first date with him

motion graphic

2006-10-30T07:50:00.000-08:00

On My Way 2006

motion graphic

2006-10-30T07:46:00.000-08:00

The Mind To The Hands 2006

Photography

2006-10-30T07:43:00.000-08:00

2005

Photography

2006-10-30T07:40:00.000-08:00

2005

Rythem

2006-10-30T07:38:00.000-08:00

Chanel no.5 Rythem 2003