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Jung Yeon Min: Painting

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Born in 1979 in Gwang ju, South Korea,  Jung Yeon Min currently lives and works in Paris, France. Min began her art education at an arts high school in Korea, followed by  four years at Hong Ik University in Seoul, and then three years at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Influenced by Hieronymous Bosch, an early Netherlandish painter famous for his apocalyptic fantasies, Min denies any easy affiliation with the more recent influence of Surrealism, although she admits, “Bosch… put so much imagination in his works, it became a kind of pre-Surrealism.”

“Min’s works are highly imaginative and rich. One finds multiple worlds, the extraordinary and the realistic, notions of micro and macro, and manipulations of space and time in her work.”

To see more of Min’s work, visit Kashya Hildebrand Gallery.

Sources: Jolaine Frizell, Jonathan Goodman

Xooang Choi: Sculpture

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Born in 1975 in Seoul, Korea,  Xooang Choi has a BFA and an MFA from Seoul National University –  College of Art, Sculpture Department.  In his latest body of work entitled  “Islets of Aspergers” Xooang sculpts concrete bodies to convey a “state of impairment in social interactions”.

“Choi visualizes the properties of each individual through one spreading rumor, one who has a huge head too heavy to stand up, one who begs for money with huge hands, one who has an extraordinary sense of smell, and one who has huge feet. In this series, Choi employs a partly hyper-realistic technique as well as other methods of exaggeration, abbreviation, and modification, using his own formative language.”  (Ki Hye-kyung, Curator of National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea)

For more information, visit DOOSAN Gallery.

Source: Slash Paris

Minjae Lee: Illustration/Painting

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More great work from South Korean artist Minjae Lee (aka Greno89 on Deviant Art). To see more of Lee’s work, visit grenomj.com.  There’s also a good interview with the artist at FashionArtExpression.com.

Park Chan Girl: Metal Sculpture

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Korean artist Park Chan Girl constructs metal sculptures from thin metal layers he calls “sliced images” using three-dimensional topography charts to plan his pieces.  Park also welds thousands of small steel nuts into a intricately textured skin, moulding them into human and animal forms.

Park has a BFA in Sculpture from Chungnam National University and an MFA in Fine Arts from KyungHee University.  He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Korea and China.

To see more, check out Blog.Naver.com.

Found via: This is Collosal

Yong Ho Ji: Recycled Tire Sculpture

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Born in 1978, Korean sculptor Yong Ho Ji has a BFA in sculpture from Hongik University in Seoul, and and MFA in fine art form New York University.

“Meticulously layering cut strips of tire as the flesh for his “mutants,” Yong Ho Ji models his creatures after endangered animals, mythological beings, and humanoids akin to his favorite superheroes. Underlying his unique brand of science fiction monster making is a startlingly specific, poetically lucid, ethical critique of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), based on his skepticism towards those “who seek to challenge nature by creating an entirely new form of life through modifying genes of animals, plants, and human beings.” Scientifically speaking, Ji’s mutants are emblematic of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, which states that mutations may evolve species better adapted to their environments. Some of his mutants inherit handsome traits (long necks or muscular hind quarters), while others inherit the abhorrent traits (multiple heads) typical of Lovecraftian sci-fi imagery.” (Trinie Dalton)

To see more, visit YongHoJi.com.

Stella Im Hultberg: Painting

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Stella Im Hultberg is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NYC. Born in South Korea, raised in Seoul, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and later in California, she studied Industrial Design and worked as a product designer before serendipitously falling into the art world in late 2005.

Stella is currently exhibiting in the Corey Helford Gallery 5th Anniversary Group Show in Culver City, CA as well as the “Bad Luck Club” Group show at the Alternative Cafe in Seaside, CA.

Check out more of her work at StellaImHultberg.com or her Blogspot.

Mi Ju: Landscape and Being

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There are only a couple of days left to see the paintings of Mi Ju at the Fecal Face Dot Gallery in San Francisco. A native of Korea, Mi Ju has been studying at The San Francisco Art Institute for the past year after getting her BFA from Yeungnam University in Korea.

“My work is an improvisation in liminality: between dream and concretized, ancient and contemporary, Korea and the West, ephemeral and eternal, the uncensored and codified. Each character, pattern and energy reflects states of consciousness that are revealed in the creative act, a form of both improvisation and organization wherein the uncensored is working in concert with momentary, yet specific compositional organizations. It is my intention that the work will be a place of meeting between memory, dream and fantasy, and concretized into meaningful visual terms.” -Mi Ju

Mi Ju plans to relocate to  New York to pursue her painting career and get her MFA at Pratt.

More at Fecal Face Dot Gallery.

Minjae Lee: Painting/Illustration

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This week’s Deviant is 19 year old, South Korean painter/illustrator Minjae Lee. Lee finds inspiration in the human face and abstract movement and colour. Lee assembles his colourful creations with  combinations of acrylics,  coloured pencils, postercolors, pens, pastels, and paint markers.

To see more of Minjae Lee’s fantastic work, visit his profile Greno89 on Deviant Art or his website Renokim.com.