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Ko Kirk Yamahira: deconstruction and reconstruction
Russo Lee Gallery Ko Kirk Yamahira: deconstruction and reconstruction October 4—27, 2018 Obsessively meticulous and labor-intensive in their construction, borderline perverse in their fetishization of process and materials, Ko Kirk Yamahira’s mixed-media constructions push painting into the realm of the sculptural. The works begin as color-field paintings or silkscreens,