I always contemplate empathy with nature when I paint. My art can be seen as a movement in silent nature. Nature is always moving and changing, nevertheless being in a still state. Walking in the mountains, walking in the woods, I feel winds blowing ceaselessly and feel stillness between them, also ceaseless movement in the silence. I’d like to portray the wind and the air - even more, all human life, material, and being itself - as an abstract work including time and space.
As a drop of water comes to the sea, dust falls on the mountains, human beings also in the end exist as tiny specks of dust in nature. Accordingly, I describe the endlessly changeable and circular condition of nature by using dots in a general abstract pattern. While intuitively overlapping and repeating innumerable dots beginning with one dot, the painting spontaneously comes into a natural form with various movements and transformations that seem to be making themselves.
Describing infinitely extended space with a close-up image, the work has an energy that is a delicate relation between dot and dot, with interconnected relations as a matrix. I imagine a painting as various images, like wind blowing in the woods, moving water, flowing clouds, and so forth. I enjoy this thinking and feel boundless freedom in the process of creation.
1960 Born in Daegu, Korea
Lives and Works in New York City
EDUCATION
2003-2005 Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1999 MFA Painting, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea
1983 BA, Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1999-2003 Instructor, Department of Art, Keimyung College, Daegu, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITION
2015 New Works, Sundaramtagore Gallery, Singapore
2014 New Works, Sundaramtagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 New Works, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York
2011 Of Change and Constancy, Gallery Korea Korean Cultural Service NY, New York
2009 In-Flight, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York
2007 From Immanence to Transcendence, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York
2006 Lightness of Being, Nabi Gallery, New York
2005 From Silence, Phoenix Gallery, New York
2000 White Painting, Art & Culture Center, Daegu, Korea
1998 Abstract Image of Lighting, Byuk-A Gallery, Daeug, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2015 Fermented Soul, WaterfallMansion Gallery, New York
2015
~ Group Show. Sundaramtagore Gallery, Hong Kong, New York
2013
2010 New Creative Construct, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York
Rasa: Contemporary Asian Art, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York
2009 Here & Now. Sundaramtagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Here & Now. Sundaramtagore Gallery, Hong Kong
Golden Rain, The Eigeroya Lighthouse, Egersund, Norway
In Your Inner Eyes, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York
Light & Shadows, Sundaramtagore Gallery, Beverlyhillls, LA
Pan-Asian Group Show, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York
2006 Secret Garden, Nabi Gallery, New York
2005 Members Group Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, New York
2000 Daegu Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Deagu, Korea
1999 Dong A Leading Artist Exhibition, Dong-A Museum, Seoul, Korea
INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS
2007 Art Miami, Miami. Represented by Sundaramtagore Galley
Hong Kong International Art & Antique Fair, Hong Kong
ART Singapore, Singapore
2007-Present