Korean-born Wook-Kyung Choi (b. 1940) created Untitled during the first of her two critical periods living in America. Facing difficulties in Korea as a woman artist, she moved to the United States in 1963 to study first at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, then at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Untitled is a consummate example of her collage works, wherein the artist combines found objects with newspaper clippings and other everyday materials. Recalling American Pop artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Choi’s collages distinguished her practice from that of her Korean contemporaries. Challenging the orthodoxy of Dansaekhwa and Mono-ha, which dominated the Korean art scene at the time, Choi forged a path of her own and has since been recognized for her historic contributions to Korean and American abstraction.

Modified 10 HO