Juxtapoz Magazine - Golden Days: Dabin Ahn @ Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles

"Painter and sculptor Dabin Ahn transforms personal objects, Korean ceramic vessels, and other ephemeral still-life elements into sites of passage. Drawing from 20th century art history, Joseon dynasty porcelain traditions, and his own imagination, he creates sensitive, meticulously painted scenes that explore remembrance and impermanence. Ahn extends his practice through wooden artist frames that he carves himself, creating apertures along the canvas edge that expose secondary or tertiary images within a single composition and dissolve boundaries between pictorial and sculptural space."

"Light functions both compositionally and symbolically throughout his work, where pin sources like fireflies or candles-the latter a nod to Gerhard Richter's seminal series of paintings-appear to illuminate Ahn's foregrounded subjects from both within and beyond the traditional picture plane. His newest exhibition, Golden Days, features ten paintings and two sculptures that continue the artist's evolving dialogue with memory and presence."

Dabin Ahn transforms personal objects, Korean ceramic vessels, and ephemeral still-life elements into painted scenes that function as sites of passage. He draws on 20th-century art history, Joseon dynasty porcelain traditions, and his imagination to create meticulously rendered images that probe remembrance and impermanence. He carves wooden artist frames to create apertures exposing secondary or tertiary images and to blur pictorial and sculptural space. Light operates compositionally and symbolically, with sources like fireflies and candles illuminating subjects from within and beyond the picture plane. The Golden Days exhibition includes ten paintings and two sculptures featuring vessels, personal effects, moths, cranes, and rendered wood grain.

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