Stranger By the Lake (Bare Ass Creek) 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Kinstler

1000 piece puzzle featuring the artwork of Ken Gun Min.

Ken Gun Min’s paintings explore intimacy, masculinity, and representation across cultures, while employing a mixture of western-style oil paints, Korean pigments, embroidery, and beading on raw canvas. Often featuring nude and queer-coded men, his portraits and lush landscapes concoct fanciful idylls filled with longing, melancholy, and euphoria. Stranger by the Lake (Bare Ass Creek) is Min’s tribute to a once-popular LA nude sunbathing and trysting spot in Angeles National Forest that was ravaged by fire in 2009.

Ken Gun Min studied western painting and art history and theory at Hongik University in Seoul, Korea and received his MFA from the Academy of Art, University of San Francisco. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and has had solo exhibitions at SCAD Museum of Art, MCA Denver, and Nazarian/Curcio Gallery in LA.