statement

Loneliness pervades these depopulated paintings. There is, instead, the satisfaction of hard-edged abstraction with its sharp geometry aided by lack of narrative. However, there is emotion in the color, which invites the viewer to experience explorations of space on my terms. They can fall in love with a place they will never know, places that I control by bringing together different views of each city in the framed composition.

I begin by collecting internet images when I first start to think about places I want to associate with, and the impressions I gather when I actually travel to those cities and live there. Sometimes these different views come together, other times they are at odds with each other; this is the real subject of my paintings. I always use the most famous cliché images, like those on postcards that can be bought in each city, but I also use my own photographs as references. Using two images, I combine them on canvas. From this process, I ask what reality is in the digital age. The digital resource becomes a window into what I look at in these places; it helps confer a porthole-like, voyeuristic quality to my art works. The tondo shapes of my canvases often act as this form of window and they offer a rounded counterpoint to my angular compositions.

bio

born: 1985, Seoul, South Korea

education

Pratt Institute, MFA, 2012
Dankook University, BFA, 2007

selected publications

Whitefish Review: Art, Literature, Photography, Montana, MT,  p. 84, Winter 2011 issue( volume 5, issue 2)

selected group shows

Power House Arena: Pratt Night Out Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
Ed. Varie gallery: Excavation:Memory, Manhattan, NY, 2012
Zhou B Art Center: National Wet Paint Exhibition, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2012