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Exhibitions
《Innuendo》, 2023.09.02 – 2023.10.14, Jason Haam
Jason Haam is pleased to announce Innuendo a solo exhibition of new paintings by a Korean artist, Moka Lee. The show, which will be the artist’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery, will open on the September 2nd and remain on view through the October 10th.
2023.08.31
Exhibitions
《Two, Lying Down, Exposed Roots》 2024.05.10 – 2024.07.21 Johyun Gallery (Haeundae)
May 10th, Johyun Gallery Haeundae is pleased to present Hyunsun Jeon’s 17 new paintings for her latest exhibition, 《Two, Lying Down, Exposed Roots》. Jeon’s latest -seen-before works come from the streams and cascades of cogitation the artist has waded through, collected, and crystallized on the relationship between two things and the hidden nature of what is essential.
2024.05.09
Exhibitions
《Maybe it’s like that》, 2021.10.28 – 2021.12.18, OCI Museum of Art
With a diverse career spanning solo and group exhibitions, awards, and residencies, Yang Jung Uk’s solo exhibition 《Maybe it's like that》 opened on October 28 and will run until November 28. OCI Museum, where the exhibition is being held, has a long-standing relationship with the artist.
2021.10.26
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Articles
[Essay] Artist Hong Kyoungtack Paints Desires in Splendid Colors and Patterns
Aside from the recent peak, South Korea has gone through several art market booms in the past. The boom in the 2000s was an important time for the Korean art market, as it went through structure diversification with new art fairs and auction houses opening and many galleries seeking to expand their activities outside the country.
2022.08.15
Articles
[Review] Shaking your Hair loose
Is it possible to create in a state where consciousness is maximally excluded? From the Surrealists of the 1920s and 30s to Jackson Pollock—who hoped that paint would settle onto the canvas through the unrestrained movements of the body—
2015
Articles
Artist Kim Taek Sang Puts Accumulated Time of Nature on Canvas
Kim Taek-Sang (b. 1958), a leading Korean Post-Dansaekhwa painter, captures the beauty of nature on canvas. As a child growing up in Wonju, Gangwon Province, the artist was greatly influenced by the colors of nature. Observing the beauty hidden in the colors of nature, Kim’s constant search for the essence of water to express its brilliance has led to his current work
2024.07.30
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[Critique] Choi Jeong-Hwa’s Plastic Paradise
Since the mid-1990s, Jeonghwa Choi has been working as an interior decorator, installation artist, and art director. In Motel Cactus (1997), the first film that Choi worked as an art director, the major backdrop of the film “Room 407” was decorated with inexpensive objects such as a red light emitted from a nearby butcher
2014
