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Art Projects International is a

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located in

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, New York City. It focuses on works of art by leading contemporary artists with diverse international backgrounds.

History

Art Projects International was founded in 1993 and opened its first commercial gallery space in the

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section of

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. The gallery specializes in contemporary art, focusing on works by leading artists with diverse international backgrounds. It advises on and facilitates exhibitions of works by contemporary artists for museums, institutions and private collectors and has worked with the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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and

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. In May 1996, the gallery hosted the first show of Jung Hyang Kim, a New York painter born in Korea, whose work skilfully juxtaposed naturalistic and abstract forms. In September 1996, it exhibited Yeong Gill Kim, a Korean artist living in New York, whose work in black and white acrylic, showed crowds of small figures in smudged landscapes, showing "on the conservative end of the spectrum in this case, that contemporary Asian artists are drawing ideas from a blend of Western and non-Western traditions."Cotter, Holland
"Art in Review: Yeong Gill Kim"
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'', September 13, 1996. Retrieved April 9, 2010. In 2006, Art Projects International was part of a consortium of galleries staging ''Contemporary Asian Arts'' week, with particular emphasis on Chinese artists; it was one of the galleries making inroads to China through cultural exchange programs.Pearlman, Ellen
"Contemporary Asian Arts Week"
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'', May 22, 2006. Retrieved April 9, 2010. In March 2008, Art Projects International exhibited a survey of Iranian-born New York artist Pouran Jinchi's works, spanning a decade from 1995–2005. Here "the evolution of Jinchi’s abstract syntax suggested a symbiosis between the artist’s method and her minimalist format."Galligan, Gregory
"Pouran Jinchi at Art Projects International"
" Art Asia Pacific Magazine", March/April 2009. In March 2010, the gallery showed "a brilliant selection of ballpoint pen drawings" by

Il Lee Il Lee (; born 1952) is a South Korean-born American contemporary artist. He was born in South Korea and has been living in America since the mid-1970s. Il Lee is best known for his ballpoint pen artwork; large-scale abstract imagery on paper ...

, a Korean-born New York artist, who has used the medium for over 30 years in a large variety of styles and sizes of composition. In late 2011, Art Projects International presented an exhibition of

entitled ''Monoprints, Editions and Paintings''. Four of the

monoprints Monoprinting is a type of printmaking where the intent is to make unique prints, that may explore an image serially. Other methods of printmaking create editioned multiples, the monoprint is editioned as 1 of 1. There are many techniques of mono-pr ...

first shown in this exhibition were acquired by

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for their permanent collection in early 2012. The gallery's third solo exhibition of Pouran Jinchi, presented a series of new drawings in March 2012. One large-scale work from this exhibition was acquired by

for their permanent collection that same year.

References

External links

Art Projects International – official website
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