KIM BO YUNG – draws her visions and nightmares.. some of the most wrenching, beautiful and authentic images made by a contemporary self taught artist.

From BLACK FLOWERS JOURNAL

Kim Bo Yung, a self-taught Korean-American artist, was adopted as an infant in Korea and brought to live outside of Portland, Oregon.

Her drawings serve as a way for her to express her trauma and life experiences, including visitations from what she identifies as “sentinels” in her dreams, her time spent in institutions, and her journey of personal self-discovery. Her artwork is meticulously crafted, pushing the act of drawing to a near-mediumistic endeavor.

Kim Bo Yung creates artwork as a means of reconciling and purging herself of trauma and difficult experiences. Her pieces have a powerful impact on viewers, evoking empathy for her struggles and inspiring us to reflect on our own wounds and scars. Through her art, she offers a path towards healing, inviting us to embark on our own journey towards recovery and self-discovery.

This is the most noble motivation of a true artist – a shamanic desire to help heal others’ pains.

From the artist:

‘Nobody told me there’d be days like this.’ But somehow, in my mind, in my gut, I knew most of mine would be – I knew it since I was five years old. Nobody told me that the tribes of people I’d connect with would be sick with plague. Strung out on the narcotics of a constant battle of split personas. One part on a quest for mythological answers they’d heard about in fables, another part setting their heels in the mud of neurosis – a depression-laden hollow they’d carved into the shape of their egotistical loneliness…”

Kim Bo Yung is an artist whose works have been featured in several exhibitions curated by Stephen Romano. These exhibitions were held in various locations, including Romano’s eponymous galleries from 2014 to 2017, as well as at the Buckland Museum and Witchcraft in Cleveland, The Living Gallery in NYC, The Outsider Art Fair in NYC, and 14BC Gallery in NYC. Kim Bo Yung’s artwork also appears on the cover and frontispiece of Jeffrey Thomas’s volume “Haunted Worlds”, as well as other publications.” .

Kim Bo Yung’s works have been included in the following selected exhibitions:

Welcome to the Dreamtime June 2014 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Mysterium Cosmographicum, Summer 2014 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
In Missa Interfectionis, October 2014 – April 2015 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“ABUNDANTIA CORNU COPIAE” November 2014 – December 2014 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“LEXICON INFERNALI” September 2015 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“Magica Sexualis” October 2015 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“Hieroglyphica” December 2015 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“SAINT BOWIE” March – May 2016 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“STATIM FINIS” April 2016 Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
OUTSIDER ART FAIR 2017 Stephen Romano Gallery booth, New York NY
WIlliam Mortensen tribute exhibition The Living Gallery curated by Stephen Romano
“The Oracle’s Eye” 14BC Gallery curated by Stephen Romano

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“i remember a boy in a tree…” dream journal daily – k.b.yung 1.4.17

The Carriage the carriage was a man with wind & feathers & warped sparks there were wheels gleaming with wings whirling light and comets there were stars & i saw spots – dream journal 1.15.17 k.b. yung

twisted snippet

paper doll persona

Knots

bastards&bitches

the messenger

enter the system id

do we all leave ghosts?

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Nightmare Spectators ix

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two-headed warty cretin bebes

Kim Bo Yung

burlesque

this is the breathstealer – recurring nightmare k.b. yung daily sketch – blowing out cobwebs I think the breathstealer is real. i think she’s been cursed – her flesh has grown over and sealed her mouth. All she can breathe through is her nose, which whistles and wheezes and oozes. She tries to melt the skin on my face with both hands to spread and smear over my own, jealous of my mouth, my lips, my voice. Her hands burn like acid.