Works by David Park (LEFT) and Manhee Kim (RIGHT)
(FORT LEE, NJ) -- Art, Unfixed brings together four artists—Manhee Kim, Wonchul Lee, Insook Yang, and David Park—working across abstract painting and photography to explore what it means to resist fixity in art, identity, and time. The exhibition runs at the Fort Lee Museum from June 15–30, 2026, with free admission daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm.
There will be an Artist Reception on Saturday, June 20th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm where you can meet all four artists and there will be guided commentary. The event features a live string quartet and vocal performance - beloved classical masterpieces and art songs performed among the works. A dinner reception is provided for all guest. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended. The Fort Lee Museum is located at 1589 Parker Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Art, Unfixed takes as its central premise the idea that art cannot be fixed — not to a single place, a single meaning, or a single form. The four participating artists — Manhee Kim, Wonchul Lee, Insook Yang, and David Park — work across painting and photography to explore, each in their own way, the condition of being unfixed.
Manhee Kim, long based in New York and active internationally, dissolves the boundary between self and world on the Camino de Santiago. Photographer Wonchul Lee erases clock hands through long exposure, dismantling the very idea of fixed time. Insook Yang's balloons drift between memory and the present without fixed place or identity, making visible the plural selves we carry within. And David Park, acupuncturist and abstract painter, surrenders the brush to the flow of Qi through the philosophy of Wu Wei — Non-Action, Emptiness, harmony with nature, stillness, and release.
Art, Unfixed offers no answers. It is an invitation to set aside fixed frameworks of perception and open an unnamed space of experience between the work and the viewer.
About the Artists
Manhee Kim | Painting, Acrylic. Manhee Kim studied at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and served as a professor at Eulji University before establishing an international practice centered in New York. Her work has been presented at Walter Wickiser Gallery (New York), the Carrousel du Louvre (Paris), Art Basel Miami, KIAF (Seoul), Art Busan, and numerous other major fairs and galleries. She has held more than fifty solo exhibitions internationally.
The works in this exhibition were sparked by her pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. Conversations with a kindred spirit encountered on the road, and the philosophical discoveries of the journey, are translated directly onto canvas. Critic Dr. Robert P. Metzger has described her practice as one of "highly intuitive ability to empty the image of fixed content, concentrating on pure form with remarkable delicacy and lyrical skill."
Wonchul Lee | Photography. Wonchul Lee is Associate Professor of Photographic Design at Hongik University Graduate School of Industrial Arts (PhD in Photography). He is the recipient of the Surim Photography Prize (2014), the Joongang Fine Arts Prize Artist of the Year (2008), and the Song Eun Fine Arts Prize (2008). His work is held in the collections of the Seoul Museum of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Kiyosato Museum (Japan), SOKA Contemporary Art Center (Beijing), and the Australian Embassy in Seoul. He has held over 35 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 200 group exhibitions.
Outside Time, Outside Place comprises two series. TIME photographs clocks in London, Prague, Budapest, and Yangon using long exposures that erase the clock hands, revealing time not as measured but as experienced. Epiphanie Landscape photographs the Korean landscape while minimizing geographical specificity, transforming real places into psychological spaces open to the viewer's own memory and emotion.
Insook Yang | Photography. Insook Yang completed doctoral coursework in Photography at Hongik University Graduate School and teaches at Seoul Culture Arts University, the Korean National Police University, and Guri Photography College. She previously served as a researcher at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) and has participated in exhibitions including the Asia Contemporary Art Show in Hong Kong.
DISTANCE begins with a single object: a balloon. Through the act of photographing, a familiar form becomes a presence drifting between memory and the present — making visible the plural, shifting selves we carry across time. Works include Emergence, Suspension, Resonance, Subtlety, and Encroachment.
David Park | Painting, Acrylic, Scalar Nature Medicine / Zen-Acu. David Park (L.Ac., Dipl.O.M.) is a licensed acupuncturist and abstract painter based in Fort Lee, NJ, where he operates Zen-Acu Natural Well-Being Clinic. His medical practice and artistic philosophy are unified under a single framework — Scalar Nature Medicine — integrating class ical East Asian medicine, quantum medicine, and fine art as dimensions of one cultivation system.
His paintings take as their direct formal language four principles: Wu Wei Zi Ran (無爲自然 · Non-Action), Kong (空 · Emptiness), Harmony with Nature (自然一致), and Stillness and Release (靜 · 弛緩). Paint is poured, scraped, pulled; gravity is given judgment. The painter's intention dissolves, and the flow of Qi finds its own form on the canvas.
"I paint until the painter disappears. What remains is the Tao (道)." — David Park, Artist Statement
Curatorial Note - "Each of the four artists in Art, Unfixed refuses fixity in their own way. Manhee Kim dissolves the boundary of the self on a pilgrim's road. Wonchul Lee melts the shape of time in front of a camera. Insook Yang captures the fluidity of identity through a drifting balloon. David Park releases even the painter's intention from the brushstroke through the principles of Wu Wei and Kong.
"Art, Unfixed — art does not hold still. Like the philosophy of Zen-Acu, it opens what is blocked and allows what is held to flow. That is the message this exhibition brings to the community of Fort Lee."
