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Cambridge-based artist Lucy Kim created Longing Pairs (Sketch) as part of a larger series called “Beach Cast Paintings.” Kim fashioned these works from casts she made of the shoreline as the tide goes out to sea. Her paintings capture the dynamic shape of ocean waves by permanently fixing the elusive impression they make in sand. The undulating surface of Longing Pairs disrupts the legibility of the work’s painted imagery, distorting the appearance of its subject: two pairs of crossed legs lounging side-by-side.
Longing Pairs (Sketch)
Lucy Kim (American (born in Seoul) in 1978)
2019
Medium/Technique
Oil paint, urethane resin, fiberglass
Dimensions
Height x width x depth: 50.8 × 38.1 × 3.8 cm (20 × 15 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Edwin E. Jack Fund
Accession Number2020.224
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsPaintings
Cambridge-based artist Lucy Kim created Longing Pairs (Sketch) as part of a larger series called “Beach Cast Paintings.” Kim fashioned these works from casts she made of the shoreline as the tide goes out to sea. Her paintings capture the dynamic shape of ocean waves by permanently fixing the elusive impression they make in sand. The undulating surface of Longing Pairs disrupts the legibility of the work’s painted imagery, distorting the appearance of its subject: two pairs of crossed legs lounging side-by-side.
Provenance2020, sold by the artist to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 17, 2020)
Copyright© Lucy Kim