Exhibitions Dates: March 10-17, 2020.

Opening: March 14, 6-8 pm (Saturday).

Artist Bio:

Yeonju Kim is an acclaimed artist from South Korea, who studied Painting at the Jeonbuk National University in the Jeonju Province. She has been actively pursuing painting in Korea since the 1980s and received accolades from competitions such as the National Folk Tale Art Competition and the Northern Jeolla Province Art Competition. Kim has had 14 solo shows in South Korea and the United States, as well as over 120 group shows. She currently resides in Seoul.

About the Work:

Yeonju Kim uses cosmic imagery of stars and nebulae and the expressive use of colors to create works of beauty and peace. Kim’s works are symbolic because she symbolizes the stars and their patterns as dots and painterly marks. Kim identifies expressive symbols from the formations of stars and nebulae and puts down expressionistic gestures on the canvas. Her works are like dreams of cosmic scale, like Jackson Pollock’s expansive and nonspecific action paintings, which discards the object-based world of the human perspective. In Kim’s imagery, the human perspective becomes relevant and irrelevant at the same time because the world that she depicts is no longer the human world, and the humans become so small in relation to the stars, but the stars are a constant reminder to people for the need for enlightenment and of the beauty of the cosmos. Switching between the modes of symbolism and semi abstract expressionism, Kim paints a peaceful state of mind that is availed to her by the beauty of the cosmos.