My First Art & Design Fair

Seoul Arts Center
My first art and design fair~!

My curator told me that the top and bottom ones were more popular than the other two. Unfortunately, my beagle was very sick at the time, so I didn't have time to create new works.




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RISD Korea Alumni Show 2010

I hung 4 paintings.
Each was inspired by water and its nature or a memory.


All works:
Acrylic on canvas
2010

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Water I Remember

I worked with the water theme for the RISD annual show.

All works:

Acrylic on canvas

2010

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Gifted to Big Uncle

Mom suggested that I give one of my paintings to Big Uncle for his birthday.

Echoing Green


Acrylic on canvas
December 2008

My First Commissioned Work

My Dad gifted the painting on the left, and later asked me to draw a second one to go with it. It was my first commissioned piece. :-)


The painting on the right:
Acrylic on canvas
October 2010






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RISD Korea Annual Show 2009

My Suggestion for "Art as Conversation: What do YOU see?"


At Gallery JK Space in Itaewon, Seoul, Korea
October 2009


For this project, my curator helped me choose 2 of my works that could best accomplish my goal of asking my viewers to share what they SAW in my works. I hung up 2 cork boards for my audiences to share what they *each* saw in my paintings. The same two paintings were shared online --- on Cyworld and Facebook.

The comments I got from both the offline and online viewers me were totally amazing! The comments were wonderfully varied and full of imagination. Oftentimes, they revealed what each of their personalities *tend to* think more about. :-)

(I'll try and update this post with some of their comments at some later date...)

Art as Conversation: What Do YOU See?

Ever since I learned a little bit about Post-Modernism in paintings, I began to wonder about the functions and roles that art could or should take.

After some pondering, all I could come up with *honesty* was that art could help people talk about their differences without having to contradict one another.


Well, so here's my question -
What do YOU see in each of the paintings here?

Share, share! It is your interaction that makes my paintings come alive :-)



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Exhibit at Gallery Godo

OK. It was a bit of a cheat-cheat; it was an open door exhibition meaning the gallery didn't base the selection on fame, content, nor commerciality.

But nonetheless, it was my first exhibit - other than school ones. I'm glad that my Dad insisted we take a photo; I felt really embarrassed to take a photo with the gallery owner and his staff standing around.

This was January this year. It's September now. And I've been busy with grad school most of the past 6 months. Time to get moving again...




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Hormonal Changes

That year in 2002, my body was covered with red spots;
Fever took over my body -
And the cells that were supposed to
Protect my body started attacking it instead.

Gallery Godo - "The Open Door" group exhibit, Seoul, Korea
February 1st - 6th 2007

Acrylic on canvas.

2004


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Zen Sky

Acrylic on canvas
January 2006




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Texture

Acrylic on canvas
February 2006




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Graffiti

Acrylic on canvas
February 2006





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Sky I Remember

ornagescreamsacrossthesky .
silentscreams -
theyechoinmyheart .


Acrylic paint on canvas
February 2006



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Lady with Orange Hair

Acrylic paint on canvas
January 2006






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Protect Me Please

Lady of Protection -
Holding her baby -

Sweet ones -
Protected by Divine Light .




Acrylic on canvas
December 2005


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One Summer, By the Pond

In the thick of summer heat -
Pond life, pond friends -
Come, come -
Drink with us .



Acrylic on canvas
90.9 × 72.7

November 2005
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Simplicity #1

one remembered scene,
this stored memory .

hello friend,
what do *you* see?



November 2005
Acrylic on canvas 



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Face of a Woman I Don't Know

lady, do i know you?
i feel i should remember you.

i'm sorry,
i regret -

it's vague...
my memory .




November 2005
Acrylic on canvas


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This is Emily Blue

This is Emily Blue.
My Angel of Despair.




November 2006
Acrylic on canvas 








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Cold Anger

Anger is not always Red -
Sometimes, my anger turns very very Blue .





November 2006
Acrylic on canvas 



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I Remember You

If I could forget -
I would really try .

It's sometimes too bad -
That I remember you too well .




Acrylic on canvas
October 2005


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I Remember

Some places I grew up in -
Had terrible terrible things .

There were nightmares -
Of buildings collapsing .

And all the faces -
That got erased .



If only I could forget -
I would forget them both .






Acrylic on canvas
October 2005


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Weather Report

When I was young -
My skies were red, blue, and orange -

My father used to tell me -
Aren't we lucky to be born in Korea?

We have all four seasons!


Acrylic on canvas
90.9 × 72.7 cm

October 2005 




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