This exhibition looks at how two artist couples, Po Kim and Sylvia Wald and Young Sup Han and Young Hie Nam, broke away from their respective pasts and incorporated nature into their life narratives and art forms. The Wind, The Stone, The Sky explores the artists’ deeply different, yet equally poignant interpretations of nature’s physical and metaphysical significance. Through a variety of media and techniques, with nature as their common theme, a delicate balance of Eastern and Western cultures is revealed in their works and within each couple’s lives.

Based in Korea, Young Sup Han and Young Hie Nam are best known for their works employing traditional Korean mulberry paper, called hanji, yet both artists explore the versatile boundaries of this culturally historic medium in uniquely distinct ways. Han’s large, striking paintings are marked by rough, unpolished, jagged lines created through a rubbing process involving natural materials such as stones, twigs, corn stalks, and perilla leaves. Nam’s works explore the possibilities of hanji paper in a markedly different way. Characterized by warmer tones and softer textures, her works explore the medium’s organic properties to evoke a sense of the fundamental serenity rooted in nature and tradition.