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Nathalie Karg is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Seoul-based artist Simon Ko. Sparks is his first exhibition with the gallery, and his debut solo exhibition in the United States since being awarded his MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2017.

In fifteen paintings, Sparks offers a meditation on the nature of relationships; presented as a fragmented narrative of vignettes chronicling the ebbs and flows of partnership. Simultaneously symbolic and representative, Ko’s scenes focus on couples - locked together or falling apart, occasionally punctuated by renderings of …