Hyungji Park was born in Seoul, Korea in 1977. In 2001, she earned her B.F.A. in Fine Art from Hongik University in Seoul, Korea. In 2006 she earned an M.F.A. in Fine Art from Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, Korea. Park also studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK, where she is currently living and working today. She specialises in Painting.
Hyungji Park’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, Neon Plants, Night Lights and
Travel to the Galaxy, begins 23 May 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland. Her other exhibitions include:
| Solo Exhibition | ||
| 2010 | Fake Tales From Somewhere | Harrington Mill Studios, Nottingham, UK, |
| Strange Scenery | Nordisk Kunst Plattform Project Space, Brusand, Norway | |
| Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2010 | Guasch Coranty International Panting Prize 2010 | The Center of Art Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain |
| 4482[Sasapari] Korean contemporary Artists in London | Bargehouse, London, UK | |
| 2009 | Raymond Gun: Platfrom | DegreeArt.com Gallery, London, UK |
| Time, Time, Time | Terrace Studios, London, UK | |
| Drawn In | Sidcot Arts Centre, North Somerset, UK | |
| Flash Company | Cecil Sharp House, London, UK | |
| Private Practice 2 | DegreeArt.com Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2008 | The Tomorrow People: Artists of the Future Now 2008 | Elevator Gallery, London, UK |
| Private Practice 1 | Chinese Characters Contemporary Art Space, Budapest, Hungary | |
| 4482 | Bargehouse, London, UK | |
| 2006 | Like Something (Duo Show) | 175 Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
She says,
“My practice brings visual references and sources from everyday surroundings, pop culture and digital images from contemporary media. The references and sources are displaced into the painting language in my practice. I approach not only painting as a visual medium but also painting as a physical medium. I am searching for ways of creating a new and playful dialogue between the material conventions of painting and the abundance of imagery I find around me.
<Neon Plants, Night Lights and Travel to the Galaxy> includes my previous series Strange Scenery and recent works. Strange Scenery creates fictitious scenes and landscapes by combining visual sources from snapshots, images from the internet, magazines, advertisement and daily remnants. They are extracted, dissected and mixed with other images, resulting in strange new scenes and landscapes. On the other hand, in more recent work, I have an interest in everyday imagery in urban life and have more focus on exploring ways of interpreting in paint, the visual grammars and atmospheres found in display windows, illuminations, objects and designs.
In both Strange Scenery and the recent work, the source images are interpreted or reinterpreted through a particular handling of the paint. They are often further transformed into abstractions that deal with on the term of the material through the process of painting. I translate the visual elements of the sources into the matter of paint and painting language, allowing the paint to reclaim these images through colors, loose brush strokes, dripping and layers of paints. The original visual information from the sources are transformed, omitted, and deformed through being interpreted into paint. They are no longer placed in their original contexts rather they are reframed as something unfamiliar, functioning only within the structure of painting.”
Please enjoy some of her work images!
Bubble Castle, Acrylic on linen, 95x130cm, 2011
Neon Plants, Acrylic on linen, 130x145cm, 2011
Boramae Park, Acrylic on linen, 130x145cm, 2011
What happened is unknown, but ... is crystal clear 1, oil on canvas, 77x102cm, 2010
What happened is unknown, but ... is crystal clear 4, oil on linen, 77x102cm, 2010
