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United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 16 W x 20 H x 0.8 D in
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My art largely focuses on portraits as I believe that faces embody a person’s life story, current emotions and thoughts. When I consider an image of someone, sometimes it hits me that it should become a painting, and I start wanting to put the face onto canvas. In some ways, each portrait is its own odyssey: I start with an image that triggers some emotions, which brings different colours, textures, and abstractions to mind. The result is always beyond what I had foreseen. In my artworks, my consideration is how abstraction meets realism to represent a contemporary modern vision. In order to achieve these visions, I paint some of my portraiture as realistic, and let other parts become transformed with bold, colourful brush strokes and gestural knife marks. These destructive or disfiguring processes gives me the freedom to be playful, experimental and fluid. This process create a sensory experience where the figure is swaying, or alive, to suggest that time is flowing and we are always on the move. By transforming the subject matter, I hope you, the viewer, may recognize this motion and come to notice your own subconscious unfolding onto the canvas. I paint with a wide brush across of some parts of my paintings with calligraphic gesture, and blur some figuration or smear some parts with a painting knife. I like the possibilities of having control but also having some things not under control. By doing so, my intention is to represent flowing time, sway, and uncertainty. It is notable how all my portraits are of faces, yet they all resemble myself, as I might be projecting my own emotions and soul. Some people form the impression that these portraits look somewhat sad; we are all temporary beings, and everything fades away over time.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16 W x 20 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Born in South Korea, now a long-term London resident, I work as an art technician and artist teacher in an independent school and am a member of ArtCan Artists. I studied Fine Art at Hong-Ik University, Seoul and took a post-compulsory PGCE at Institute of Education, UCL, London. I have exhibited in numerous galleries in Korea and England, including Highgate Fine Art, Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Gallery Pfo, Sutton House, Kingston Museum, the Korean Cultural Centre and D contemporary. I focus on portraits and try to capture the subtle emotions of the subjects and the atmosphere around them. I investigate the possibilities of figurative and abstraction in my contemporary portraits. I’m also interested in pondering on simple, delicate plants, as a plant is a small universe in itself. In both genres, I trail a wide brush across of some parts of my paintings and blur some figuration or smear some parts with a painting knife, like #GerhardRichter. While Richter blurs surfaces evenly, I keep some parts of paintings figurative and choose other parts to be abstracted. I like the possibilities of having control but also having some things not under control. By doing so, my intention is to represent flowing time, sway, and uncertainty. We are here now and we’ll be gone.
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