While working as a waiter and training as a sushi chef to pay off student loans, fourth-year studio art major Albert Ok creates paintings that touch subjects vast and minute, as microscopic as a blood cell and as general as physical labor.
One painting of Ok’s, which garnered immediate and intense reaction from his peers, is a bed sheet, stretched over a wooden frame. The lower half of the greenish-brown sheet is dotted with hundreds of small circles of various natural colors: brown, red and white.
His use of a bed sheet calls into consideration issues surrounding the body (since beds and blankets are associated with a host of ideas, including bodily function, bodily fluids, rest, rejuvenation, sin, nests, sex and death, among others), as do his uses of red wine and bleach to form the circles
Student Art: Albert Ok
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