Water is so primary in our lives that we forget to look at it, unless we’re taking in a broad expanse of it—lake, river, tide. And then there is the droplet, defined as “a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces.” So now we’re talking physics. The Korean émigré painter Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929–2021), over a period of five decades, focused his work on drops of water, their translucence, transience, beauty. In a letter to the critic Lee Yil, he wrote “The act of painting waterdrops is to dissolve everything into an act of transparency, returning to nothingness …” Lacking ego, these globes of water hold soul-quenching spirituality. This exhibition presents works from the 1980s through the 2010s. —Laura Jacobs