François Ghebaly is proud to present Golden Days, Dabin Ahn’s solo exhibition at the gallery’s Los Angeles space. Painter and sculptor Dabin Ahn transforms personal objects, Korean ceramic vessels, and other ephemeral still-life elements into sites of passage. Drawing from 20th century art history, Joseon dynasty porcelain traditions, and his own imagination, he creates sensitive, meticulously painted scenes that explore remembrance and impermanence. Ahn extends his practice through wooden artist frames that he carves himself, creating apertures along the canvas edge that expose secondary or tertiary images within a single composition and dissolve boundaries between pictorial and sculptural space. Light functions both compositionally and symbolically throughout his work, where pin sources like fireflies or candles—the latter a nod to Gerhard Richter’s seminal…
