Byron Kim is one of the most important American artists who came of age in the early 1990s. For the past decade he has maintained a steadfast commitment to exploring the potential content of abstract painting, drawing on post-war traditions of monochrome painting exemplified by Ad Reinhardt's black paintings and Brice Marden's waxy fields of color, as well as by Mark Rothko and other New York School painters of the abstract sublime. Kim's paintings are visually subtle compositions that merge aspects of Minimalist abstraction with evocative representation, while confronting issues of race, community, and cultural biases.

Threshold: Byron Kim 1990-2004 is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, RBC Dain Rauscher, and Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley.