Kim Tschang-Yeul moved to New York in 1966 after receiving a scholarship from the Rockefeller fund, where he made contact with the burgeoning movements of Pop Art, Op Art, and Minimalism as a student at the Art Students League. During this period, the artist experimented with bright, oozing, biomorphic forms, creating singular bodies that were at once fluid and fractured. Although the biomorphic forms resemble organic, microscopic biological units, they are painted in vibrant and synthetic hues, perhaps emblematic of an interest in the commercial, fabricated, and artificial that Kim shared with the artist milieu of New York during this period. The fluidity of his forms also anticipates Kim’s later fixation with the subject of the water drop, which he would paint exclusively from the early 1970s until his passing in 2021.