“BANISHMENT I, II, III, IV, V” 91 X 116 CM X 5 PIECES ACRYLIC AND SCREEN INK ON CANVAS 2011 
Psychedelic art and traditional Asian art are two forms of expression that attract vastly different crowds, but Casper Kang has managed to fuse the two styles together to create something inventive yet familiar. 
Littered throughout these illustrations are motifs, such as clouds, snake scales and floral designs, that you’d expect to see from images originating from China, Korea or Japan. The way Kang pieces these elements together, however, is highly evocative of poster art you’d expect to see during the late 1960s, when psychedelic imagery reigned supreme.
“DDD” 390 X 160 CM ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS 2009
Casper Kang was born in Toronto, Canada and after completing his B.A.S. at Carleton University, he moved to Seoul, South Korea. Feeling disillusioned by society, and also due to his affinity towards art since childhood, he quit his job to pursue a career as a painter, which he hopes to maintain until his death.
Inspired by modern social conditions, the visual forms and subject matter of his work draw from such outlets as popular culture, materialism, cultural identity, and capitalism. Asterisks frequently appear in most of his works, as both his signature and logo. Symbolizing that which is “special”, and emphasizing the sentimental quality of “apathetic personal interpretation” in modern society; the notion of grey, as in the absence of black and white, the dissolution of morality and liking or disliking something for no particular reason. As an asterisk is used to signify something of importance in a text, Casper Kang’s asterisk paintings, when hung in a certain space, announce that that particular space is “special”. Casper Kang currently resides and works in Seoul.
