Chung Sang-Hwa

This 86-year artist is a legend in his native Korea, where he has spawned a school of followers. Yet he’s little known in this country, making his New York debut something of a revelation. On view are a series of minimalist monochromes (mostly white or off-white except for one stunning example in celadon blue) enlivened by sublime surface effects created with a painstaking technique: The artist starts by coating canvases in clay before intricately folding them to create fine, overall patterns of cracks that are both regular and precise in a way that imbues process art with spiritual depth.