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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Sep 3

Partial Octagon (Emerald Green)
gouache, paper, nails
dimensions variable
2024

installed in studio, August 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 8.5 feet)
#alexpaik

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you, Nick! 💖💖💖

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you!

Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks!

Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Aug 21

This summer was filled with injury recovery, PT appointments, child care, and other things 😵‍💫 but I finally finished this new modular installation. #alexpaik

Partial Right Triangle (Aqua Blue)
gouache, paper, pins
dimensions variable
2025

installed in studio, August 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 6 feet)

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jul 27

#WillRawls at #ICALA

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jul 27

#TakakoYamaguchi at #MOCALA

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jul 27

#WillRawls at #ICALA

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jul 22

Who wants to give me a big wall so I can fill it with pattern? 😅

Partial Octagon (Emerald Green)
gouache, paper, nails
dimensions variable
2024
installed in studio, May 2025 (approx. 5 x 7.5 feet)
#alexpaik

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Reposted by Alex Paik

Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · Jul 19

Ruth Asawa’s iconic looped wire sculptures are the star of her retrospective at SFMOMA. The seemingly infinite variations that she found within the limits of the medium are staggering — the best reductive abstractionists can spend a lifetime trying to achieve the same thing.

Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life

Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.

hyperallergic.com

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jul 17

My review of the #RuthAsawa retrospective at SFMoma on @hyperallergic.com

hyperallergic.com/1027751/ruth...

Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life

Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.

hyperallergic.com

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Reposted by Alex Paik

Tiger Strikes Asteroid @tsanetwork.bsky.social · Jul 17

Tickets for our fundraiser are now live! Don’t miss out on early bird pricing!

givebutter.com/tsabenefit25

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jul 3

Improvisation #3 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange)
gouache on paper
6.25 x 6.25 x 1.25 inches
2025
#alexpaik

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thank you!

Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jun 24

Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta)
gouache, paper, nails
dimensions variable
2024

installed in studio, May 2025 (approx. 5 x 6.5 feet)
#alexpaik

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jun 17

Improvisation #2 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange)
gouache on paper
7.75 x 7.75 x 0.5 inches
2025
#alexpaik

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · Jun 5

Ten Asian diasporic artists explore how we create our self-images through technology, media, and cultural representation in “my hands are monsters who believe in magic” at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts.

Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images

A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.

hyperallergic.com

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jun 4

My latest for Hyperallergic

hyperallergic.com/1015060/asia...

Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images

A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.

hyperallergic.com

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Jun 2

Improvisation #1 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange)
gouache on paper
7 x 7 x 0.5 inches
2025
#alexpaik

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · May 29

Some new drawings 👀
#alexpaik

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · May 15

🎼 Some of you may know that classical music was my first artistic love, so it feels very special to have written this piece for LA Phil’s Seoul Festival and GYOPO Diasporic Refractions.

www.laphil.com/about/watch-...

A Polyphonic Identity | Seoul Festival

Alex Paik (GYOPO) considers his relationship to his culture in the context of the LA Phil’s Seoul Festival, a celebration of Korean music and artistry at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

www.laphil.com

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · May 12

#JeffreyGibson at #BroadMuseum

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · May 2

Some more new drawings. #alexpaik

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Apr 21

Another formation 🐦

Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta)
gouache, paper, nails
dimensions variable
2024

installed in studio, April 2025 (approx. 4 x 6 feet)
#alexpaik

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · Apr 20

#YoshikazuTanaka at #ATLA

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