PULL UP DRAWING

Colored pencil on paper, 20” x 25”, area of drawing 1.5” x 1”

2017

Between 2016 and 2017, Namkung performed one hundred 5-minute long Wall Sit Drawings, each session with colored pencil, a different color each day. Then, with the same pencil in his mouth, he performed ten pull ups and poked a sheet of paper mounted above the pull up bar.

Exhibited in Body Marks at Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, 2019, curated by Carmen Tiffany; and in Fundamental Complications at Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2019. curated by Mel Prest.

Click to view the companion piece, 100 WALL SITS.