Studio Workshop: 3D Painting
April 30, 2025 | 1–3:30 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art, Red Workshop, Greene Family Education Center
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Drawing inspiration from the exhibition Kim Chong Hak, Painter of Seoraksan, learn to paint in three dimensions! Experiment with different textures and paint applications under expert guidance, incorporating acrylic mediums and collaged materials to create paintings that rise off the canvas.
About Studio Workshops
Studio Workshops are beginner-friendly art-making workshops inspired by artworks on view at the High. These workshops provide opportunities to experiment, play, and enjoy new art-making materials and processes. No prior experience is required. Studio Workshops are designed for adults, but all ages are welcome. This workshop is offered three times.
About Your Instructor
Daniel Mantilla is a Colombian-born artist with over a decade of experience teaching young people, families, and adults. In his paintings, drawing-collages, and cutouts, Daniel explores ideas of transition and instability. He previously lived in New York City, where he recorded instructional videos for public television. His art has been exhibited across the United States and internationally. He has studied paintings in museum collections in Spain, conducted research on cadmium-free acrylic paint, and holds an MFA from Hunter College.
About Kim Chong Hak, Painter of Seoraksan
Kim Chong Hak (born 1937, Sinuiju, Korea) is a master painter from South Korea popularly known as “the painter of Seoraksan”—the highest peak in the country’s Taebaek mountain range. With more than seventy works, including new acquisitions from the High’s collection, this exhibition spans the arc of Kim’s mature career and presents an aspect of Korean art in the late twentieth century little known outside of South Korea.
Having first worked as an abstract painter in the 1960s, Kim ultimately rejected the adoption of Western-style abstraction, which he viewed as a response to national melancholy brought on by previous decades of hardship and deprivation. In the late 1970s, he settled in Gangwon Province, eastern South Korea, home of Mount Seorak. There he sought out an alternative artistic discourse, moving away from the monochromatic painting popular in Korea at that time toward his unabashedly expressive style. He has since dedicated his life and work to interpreting the environs of Mount Seorak, developing an artistic and emotional attunement to the natural world during decades of self-imposed isolation in the mountains.
