Cody Choi
Kukje Gallery
WHILE THERE'S NOTHING NEW in talk of art in the computer age, or of the influence of digital imagery on visual perception and the artistic imagination, Cody Choi's exhibition “New PictorialismDatabase Painting” merits attention because of the artist's eloquent way of personalizing these themes. The exhibition consists of three parts: twenty-one “paintings” (actually vutek prints on mesh, backed with canvas); a desktop computer with an interactive software program; and a text stenciled along the gallery walls, narrating the story line behind the paintings, the personal experience from which