Mirena Kim | Portmanteau / Mirena Kim | Portmanteau

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Press Release

 

Mirena Kim | Portmanteau 


Mirena Kim | Posterity | oil on canvas | 36 x 30 inches

Exhibition Dates: February 21 – March 28, 2026
In Conversation: Saturday, February 21st at 2pm.
Mirena Kim, and Frank James Williams with Patricia Sweetow
Reception follows from 3-5:30pm

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present the paintings and sculpture of Mirena Kim in her first solo exhibition, Portmanteau. On view will be oil paintings and paper sculpture, the sculpture formed out of reclaimed paper pulp. Exhibition Dates are February 21 – April 4, 2026.

Mirena Kim approaches her intimate scale paintings with a reduced palette and a keen eye to architectural space. Her creative life began as a potter working primarily on the wheel. She had a fascination for the circle, at once nothing – empty, a zero – and everything, containing and encircling our lives.  By keeping her palette restricted to two or three colors, often working tone on tone, Kim subtly carves out space in two and three dimensions.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Mirena Kim lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She attended the University of California Santa Cruz and Otis College of Art and Design.