The Sky, The Wind, The Stars, and Poetry | Seattle Art Fair 2025 | Gallery B612, Booth F09
- MiYoung Seul Margolis 설미영
- Jun 25
- 5 min read
Updated: Jun 30
The Sky, The Wind, The Stars, and Poetry
Seattle Art Fair 2025 | Gallery B612, Booth F09
July 17–20, 2025 | Lumen Field Event Center, Seattle
“Until the day I die,
May I have no shame when I gaze at the sky…”
— Dong-Ju Yun
Dong-Ju Yun’s posthumous 1948 collection, The Sky, The Wind, The Stars, and Poetry, offered a quiet but unwavering resistance—an ode to dignity, memory, and beauty amid darkness.
At Seattle Art Fair 2025, Gallery B612 brings this poetic spirit into the visual realm. In this curated exhibition, four Korean artists reinterpret Yun’s elemental motifs—sky, wind, stars, and poetry—through Hanji, Korea’s traditional handmade paper.
But Hanji here is more than medium—it is breath, it is silence made visible. Reimagined through fusion materials such as resin, textiles, and even torn Amazon boxes, Hanji becomes a vessel of layered stories. A surface for memory, for nature, for healing.
This is not merely an exhibition of paintings. It is a space of reverence—for nature, memory, and the poetic imagination. Here, the wind leaves traces. The stars illuminate what’s been lost. The sky holds it all.
The Sky, The Wind, The Stars, and Poetry invites you not only to look, but to feel—to find your own quiet verses unfolding between texture and light.
Works on View (from left to right):
MiYoung Margolis, Ithaca I, 2025 | YoungHwa Choi, Morning Glory 7, Echoes of Mount Rainier
KyoungMug Park, Black Mirror 5 | MinJung Kim, The Silence Abyss
Epilogue
Beyond the Visible: A Tribute to Poetry & Art
“Tonight, again, the stars brush against the wind.”
The Sky — MiYoung Margolis
Layers of Hanji, Layers of Memory
As both curator and featured artist, MiYoung Margolis presents abstract Hanji compositions that evoke the emotional vastness of sky. Layered and luminous, her works ask: What do we carry under the sky—and what can we release?
“I see the sky as a memory field—where stories rise, dissolve, and return in layers of breath.” -MiYoung
The Wind — MinJung Kim
Art as Healing
With a background in art therapy and sculpture, MinJung creates meditative Hanji works that move like breath. Her pieces whisper:
“괜찮아… 괜찮아… (It’s okay… It’s okay…)”
They offer presence without pressure—a soft wind through the soul.
The Stars — YoungHwa Choi
The Boundary Between the Fleeting and the Eternal
YoungHwa's works float between presence and absence, like stars hidden by clouds yet always shining. They are quiet constellations of memory—fragile, yet lasting.
“Like stars, my paintings exist in silence. You may not see them all—but you can feel their light.”
Poetry — KyoungMug Park
Reconstructing Time and Form
KyoungMug paints poetry. Using Hanji and traditional Korean ink (meok), his brushwork explores form, motion, and metaphysical time. For him, ink becomes breath; gesture becomes verse.
Live Painting Performance: Rhythms of Ink
By Arist KyoungMug Park
Opening Night at 7 pm & Saturday, July 19 at 3 pm | Booth F09, Gallery B612
In his Seattle debut, KyoungMug performs Rhythms of Ink—a live painting ritual of poetry, ink, and silence. With Dong-Ju’s verses narrated in Korean and English, soft music, and brush on floor-laid canvas, this is more than a performance.
It’s a living poem. A meditation in motion.
KyoungMug Park’s Live Painting | Mall Galleries, London (2023)
About the Exhibition
This is not merely a visual showcase.
It is a space for pause—for memory, emotion, and poetic resonance.
The sky remembers. The wind carries. The stars illuminate. And poetry breathes.
Now in its second year at Seattle Art Fair, Gallery B612 invites you to meet Korean contemporary art not only with your eyes, but also through your heart and spirit.
Visit Us
Seattle Art Fair 2025, July 17–20, 2025
Booth F09 – Gallery B612
🎫 Tickets & Preview: (coming soon on Artsy)
📸 Instagram: @GalleryB612
Curator’s Note: A Vision Beyond the Frame
As Lead curator of this exhibition, my heart is full of intention. The Sky, The Wind, The Stars, and Poetry is not just an homage to Dong-Ju Yun’s verses—it is a collective offering. A space where tradition meets innovation, where Korean artists and Korean-American voices gather to breathe together on shared ground.
Seattle is a city of stories. Stories from rain, from movement, from migration. And in this city—diverse, layered, and vibrant—I believe there is a deep hunger for art that slows us down and helps us feel. That’s why it matters that this exhibition exists here.
I wanted to create a space where Korean contemporary art could be not just seen but felt. Where poetry isn’t framed on the wall but flowing through the air. Where tradition isn’t preserved in silence, but reimagined in conversation—with new audiences, new cities, new hearts.
It means the world to invite these incredible Korean artists—YoungHwa Choi, MinJung Kim, KyoungMug Park—to join me here in Seattle. Their presence isn’t just artistic; it’s symbolic.
It reminds us that art doesn’t live in one place. It travels. It connects. It becomes.
I hope visitors don’t just glance—but pause. I hope they breathe with us. I hope they find their own stories in the sky above, the wind that brushes past, the stars that never truly leave us, and the quiet poetry of being.
This exhibition is not a spectacle. It’s not something you simply pass through. It’s something that stays with you. Like a poem you don’t fully understand… but keep reading anyway. Like a memory you didn’t know you were missing. Like silence that finally speaks. - Lead Curator & Artist, Mi-Young Margolis
After the Fair, the Bridge Continues
Seattle Art Bridge Project
July 17–31, 2025 | Gallery B612
Reception Date | July 24 at 6:30 pm
'Seattle Art Bridge' is a special exhibition that seeks to build connections beyond boundaries through art. Bringing together artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, abilities, and creative voices, the project fosters inclusive, collaborative work that celebrates mutual understanding and artistic exchange.
Presented at Gallery B612, located in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood less than a mile south of the WAMU Theater at Lumen Field, the exhibition runs concurrently with the Seattle Art Fair and continues through July 31, offering visitors an extended opportunity to engage with bold, boundary-crossing works.
This one-time exhibition features artists KyoungMug Park (S. Korea), MinJung Kim (S. Korea), and Ian Shearer (Seattle, USA), along with artists from Special Arts Korea and Vibrant Palette Arts Center.
A public reception will be held on Thursday, July 24, at 6:30 PM, inviting the community to meet the artists and experience the work in person.
주식회사 스페셜아트 Special Arts Korea
Art beyond borders. Connection beyond labels. Connecting communities through art. Bridging cultures, voices, and abilities.
For inquiries or more information, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Gallery B612
Curated by Gallery B612 Director & Owner MiYoung Margolis
Interpretation and Exhibition Design by Gallery B612 Curator Kelly Cook
Assistance and Catalog Design by Gallery B612 Education and Programs Intern Grace Vallecillo-Drews
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