{"id":266809,"date":"2026-06-14T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:25:12","slug":"the-fort-lee-museum-presents-art-unfixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266809\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fort Lee Museum presents “Art, Unfixed”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published by New Jersey Stage<\/a>
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originally published: 06\/14\/2026<\/p>\n

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Works by David Park (LEFT) and Manhee Kim (RIGHT)<\/p>\n

(FORT LEE, NJ) —\u00a0Art, Unfixed brings together four artists\u2014Manhee Kim, Wonchul Lee, Insook Yang, and David Park\u2014working across abstract painting and photography to explore what it means to resist fixity in art, identity, and time. The exhibition runs at the Fort Lee Museum from June 15\u201330, 2026, with free admission daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm.<\/p>\n

There will be an Artist Reception on Saturday, June 20th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm where you can meet all four artists and there will be guided commentary. The event features a live string quartet and vocal performance – beloved classical masterpieces and art songs performed among the works. A dinner reception is provided for all guest. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended. The Fort Lee Museum is located at 1589 Parker Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Art, Unfixed takes as its central premise the idea that art cannot be fixed \u2014 not to a single place, a single meaning, or a single form. The four participating artists \u2014 Manhee Kim, Wonchul Lee, Insook Yang, and David Park \u2014 work across painting and photography to explore, each in their own way, the condition of being unfixed.<\/p>\n

Manhee Kim, long based in New York and active internationally, dissolves the boundary between self and world on the Camino de Santiago. Photographer Wonchul Lee erases clock hands through long exposure, dismantling the very idea of fixed time. Insook Yang’s balloons drift between memory and the present without fixed place or identity, making visible the plural selves we carry within. And David Park, acupuncturist and abstract painter, surrenders the brush to the flow of Qi through the philosophy of Wu Wei \u2014 Non-Action, Emptiness, harmony with nature, stillness, and release.<\/p>\n

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Art, Unfixed offers no answers. It is an invitation to set aside fixed frameworks of perception and open an unnamed space of experience between the work and the viewer.<\/p>\n

About the Artists<\/p>\n

Manhee Kim | Painting, Acrylic. Manhee Kim studied at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and served as a professor at Eulji University before establishing an international practice centered in New York. Her work has been presented at Walter Wickiser Gallery (New York), the Carrousel du Louvre (Paris), Art Basel Miami, KIAF (Seoul), Art Busan, and numerous other major fairs and galleries. She has held more than fifty solo exhibitions internationally.<\/p>\n

The works in this exhibition were sparked by her pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. Conversations with a kindred spirit encountered on the road, and the philosophical discoveries of the journey, are translated directly onto canvas. Critic Dr. Robert P. Metzger has described her practice as one of “highly intuitive ability to empty the image of fixed content, concentrating on pure form with remarkable delicacy and lyrical skill.”<\/p>\n

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Wonchul Lee | Photography. Wonchul Lee is Associate Professor of Photographic Design at Hongik University Graduate School of Industrial Arts (PhD in Photography). He is the recipient of the Surim Photography Prize (2014), the Joongang Fine Arts Prize Artist of the Year (2008), and the Song Eun Fine Arts Prize (2008). His work is held in the collections of the Seoul Museum of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Kiyosato Museum (Japan), SOKA Contemporary Art Center (Beijing), and the Australian Embassy in Seoul. He has held over 35 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 200 group exhibitions.<\/p>\n

Outside Time, Outside Place comprises two series. TIME photographs clocks in London, Prague, Budapest, and Yangon using long exposures that erase the clock hands, revealing time not as measured but as experienced. Epiphanie Landscape photographs the Korean landscape while minimizing geographical specificity, transforming real places into psychological spaces open to the viewer’s own memory and emotion.<\/p>\n

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Insook Yang | Photography. Insook Yang completed doctoral coursework in Photography at Hongik University Graduate School and teaches at Seoul Culture Arts University, the Korean National Police University, and Guri Photography College. She previously served as a researcher at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) and has participated in exhibitions including the Asia Contemporary Art Show in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

DISTANCE begins with a single object: a balloon. Through the act of photographing, a familiar form becomes a presence drifting between memory and the present \u2014 making visible the plural, shifting selves we carry across time. Works include Emergence, Suspension, Resonance, Subtlety, and Encroachment.<\/p>\n

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David Park | Painting, Acrylic, Scalar Nature Medicine \/ Zen-Acu. David Park (L.Ac., Dipl.O.M.) is a licensed acupuncturist and abstract painter based in Fort Lee, NJ, where he operates Zen-Acu Natural Well-Being Clinic. His medical practice and artistic philosophy are unified under a single framework \u2014 Scalar Nature Medicine \u2014 integrating class ical East Asian medicine, quantum medicine, and fine art as dimensions of one cultivation system.<\/p>\n

His paintings take as their direct formal language four principles: Wu Wei Zi Ran (\u7121\u7232\u81ea\u7136 \u00b7 Non-Action), Kong (\u7a7a \u00b7 Emptiness), Harmony with Nature (\u81ea\u7136\u4e00\u81f4), and Stillness and Release (\u975c \u00b7 \u5f1b\u7de9). Paint is poured, scraped, pulled; gravity is given judgment. The painter’s intention dissolves, and the flow of Qi finds its own form on the canvas.<\/p>\n

“I paint until the painter disappears. What remains is the Tao (\u9053).” \u2014 David Park, Artist Statement<\/p>\n

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Curatorial Note – “Each of the four artists in Art, Unfixed refuses fixity in their own way. Manhee Kim dissolves the boundary of the self on a pilgrim’s road. Wonchul Lee melts the shape of time in front of a camera. Insook Yang captures the fluidity of identity through a drifting balloon. David Park releases even the painter’s intention from the brushstroke through the principles of Wu Wei and Kong.<\/p>\n

“Art, Unfixed \u2014 art does not hold still. Like the philosophy of Zen-Acu, it opens what is blocked and allows what is held to flow. That is the message this exhibition brings to the community of Fort Lee.”<\/p>\n

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EVENT PREVIEWS <\/p>\n

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The Fort Lee Museum presents “Art, Unfixed”<\/a>(FORT LEE, NJ) — Art, Unfixed brings together four artists\u2014Manhee Kim, Wonchul Lee, Insook Yang, and David Park\u2014working across abstract painting and photography to explore what it means to resist fixity in art, identity, and time. The exhibition runs at the Fort Lee Museum from June 15\u201330, 2026, with free admission daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The
The Gallery on Grant to Hold Opening Reception for “Enduring Spirit” on July 12th<\/a>(DEAL PARK, NJ) — The Gallery on Grant will host an opening reception for its new art show, “Enduring Spirit,” on Sunday, July 12, 2026 from 6:15pm-7:30pm in the gallery, which is located inside the Axelrod Performing Arts Center. “Enduring Spirit” showcases two artists: the paintings of Toby Bergman and the sculptures of Bunnye Levi. Bergman will also give a brief discussion of her art at the reception.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Gallery
Gallery 491 presents “What Remains” – works by Mary Marino<\/a>(MONTCLAIR, NJ) — Gallery491 presents What Remains from June 25 through August 28, 2026. This is a new exhibition featuring the work of Mary Marino \u2013 a multimedia artist who finds beauty, wit, and resilience in the things the world throws away.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Trenton
Trenton City Museum announces 2026 Ellarslie Open award winners<\/a>(TRENTON, NJ) — Nine artists from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California were awarded prizes during the Artists and Members Reception for Ellarslie Open 43 on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion. The Juror of the annual juried show, Adam Welch, is Executive Director of the Arts Council of Princeton.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The
The Montclair Art Museum presents Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of the American Landscape<\/a>(MONTCLAIR, NJ) — The Montclair Art Museum presents Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of the American Landscape, an exhibition of photographs by acclaimed American artist Victoria Sambunaris, from June 26, 2026 to February 21, 2027. The exhibition brings together large-scale photographs and related materials from Sambunaris’s ongoing exploration of the American landscape and its transformation through human intervention, industry, and infrastructure.<\/a><\/p>\n

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FEATURED EVENTS <\/p>\n


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