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< Oil Painting >
The art work <Life>, which is showing the greenish forests with several bountiful trees(awarded Best Prize in the Korean Painting Contest
2014), gives bountiful taste of Nature. The art work <White birches> (awarded Special Prize from National Art Contest 2015) shows
many white birch trees from dark green background on the straight composition. The oil painting <Reeds> (awarded Grand Prize from
MokwooHoe Art Association Contest 2018) is showing fantastic control of the density and monochrome-color effect with restricted color
usage, and shows dramatic composition of void in the center to get mysterious view point. These oil paintings are exhibited the Paris
independent exhibitions. Furthermore, the wide range of creating oil-color art works from real-life flower sketch, still-life to wide view
landscapes. Since 2000 the mixed media art begins with oil painting, and finally from 2016 the artist starts to use brass based metal painting.
< Metal Painting >
This challenge includes to create the powerful impressive metal(brass or nickel plates) paintings, those are grinded and scratched by sharp
steel knifes and machines; it creates the images from various composition and coloring. Here, the subject is prolonged into as white birches,
water lilies, and harvested corn or grains. Through the subjects, the thanksgiving voice to heaven is hided. Further arguably, she starts to
create the art works in between representation and abstract styles. Escaping from simple drawing, it starts from to use both skills by hand
and grinding machines. Upon the certain bases of the metal canvas not by pencil or brushes but by the dynamic machines, she uses the
artificial touches & scratches to compose the ideal images, those are from the drawing and erasing skills to give certain tone, color and void.
Despite it is looking as if a research of the real nature only, but in real, it is the new nature by the artist, accomplishing the new artistic world.
And it is added by the fully designed colors with the sharp traces which is from the bright glittering lights as the sunshine. Finally, the artist
creates the delicate touches of the harmonized sharpness that can be regarded as the fresh glorious art works of ‘The new nature.’ Hereafter,
to magnify the stage of expression, the artist starts to create bronze sculptures.
< Bronze Sculpture >
She has created three kinds of bronze sculptures: one is the pure mass expressing ‘family’ series and delicate curvilineal ‘romantic couple’
series, and the other is dynamic ‘ice skating couples’ series. Furthermore, she has created a relief of lovely mother and child. With special
healing message, the sculptures soothe us, who are hurted by the unlimited competing modern society.
< Nature & I >
Not by single painting or sculpture, more amazing development of the artist is to attach a bronze sculpture on the base of more fresh
pure abstract painting, as is done by in between the represent and abstract style; that is what I can call the point-up skill. The 3 Dimensional
pointed sculpture in 2 Dimensional painting helps the act of impression for spectators. Thus, not only giving us the safety feeling, but also
finally being as the remember tip, it helps us reminding the problem of material civilization with circumstance, the reason of human living,
what are the creation & creating art, and furthermore the issue of artificial and nature. Further arguably, with the new nature from artist’s
powerful artificial touch, harmonious colorful world and brilliance of the glittering images, the art works give us the message of “let’s feel
the natural breathe, and think about our future living.” Here is the artist’s loving heart of human-being with “the healing message of natural
therapy”as the title <Nature & I>. Since 2018 the artist starts to use this subject title on the brass based metal painting, to describe various
image of the living people, because of seriousness but is done mildly with fairy tale drawing skills.
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