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October 18th, 2013
This website and many other fine art websites are great for showing our work to many people who may not otherwise get the chance to see it. However I know with my own art and I feel with any art it is impossible to get the same sense or feeling of the work unless you are face to face with the original. What do you think?
October 4th, 2013
September 30th, 2013
by Young Jay Lee (art critic)
Generally, when we talk of an artist's work, we used to try to comprehend its plastic aspect and placement, as objectively as possible, in the context of the period and history of art. However, in front of Kyung Hee's works, we can soon find that this kind of effort is pointless.
Her painting doesn't go to the world that one can comprehend ordinarily and logically, but is a kind of medium and personality from which she can justify herself. Painting is closely related to her life so that it is so earnest to her. In this context, a kind of analysis in the light of art history hardly has meaning in her painting.
If one iconographically approaches her work simply in the viewpoint of art history that might seem to be the most refined approach, but that would be the most wrong way at least if front of her works. Problems of the actual world seem to be very serious and pathetic to her. Paintings are a kind of way of salvation and a place of refuge to transcend the finitude from such problems and limitations in her actuality.
Her paintings are covered with an endless repetition of different colored dots interacting with each other on the surface. She has done such work for a long time and recently she has been developing endless points on the base of triangle or trapeziod forms. In front of such a gathering of repetative points, we have a fantasy of falling to a new and mysterious world beyond the horizon of our own reality. She is beginning to forget all kinds of sufferings and agonies, with marking points repetitively on the surface. The points she marks go sometimes to the world of new meditation, sometimes to the world of religious sublimity and sometimes to the world of salvation.
She is very introvert and mostly stays in the studio to work rather than mingle in social meetings. It seems that she has a kind of inner adversity in life, and such adversity seems to be freely sublimated on her picture space rather than in actuality. Her paintings should not be isolated as simply paintings themselves. We can enjoy mystic sentiments in her paintings, only if we see the paintings in the context of all of her life.
Finally, Kyung Hee's world of art is closely related to her own inner world. Only through this linkage, her world of art reveals it's mysterious power. Simply looking at her works themselves, we might understand her works less than one tenth. All of her works come out of a complex of mixed ideas in herself which even 'elle ne sait quoi.' It is something that one can't fully understand from her works themselves. In relation to her way of life, her character and unconscious memories in her closed life, her paintings are a kind of refuge and also a space of liberation to her.
June 22nd, 2013
May 5th, 2012
March 21st, 2012
December 8th, 2011
I sent my work to the gallery and we set up the show...since we finished one day early I can take a rest before the show starts on the 10th, I am really looking forward to this Exhibition since it is the first one I will do in Canada. I hope many people can come to see my work, this show represents two solid years of preparation and now I can share it with everyone. I hope to see you there!
November 23rd, 2011
February 12th, 2011
Whenever I am in deep sorrow for the troubles of daily life among many people. I look over a mountain...standing...take time...breath in the tranquil peace coming from it. And I am also united into the calmness of the mountain.
It may be inevitable truth that the litteral "concord" cannot be made. But I find myself in unity with the mountain, the plain and the sea, which finally become one though they exist seperately.
"nature"
Each has his own identity and his own way of life. These different personalities come together in harmony; it is our life, and nature.
Kyung Hee Hogg
From my work diary
February 18th, 2010
Back to Heaven
I'll go back to heaven again.
Hand in hand with the dew
that melts at a touch of the dawning day,
I'll go back to heaven again.
With the dusk, together, just we two,
at a sign from a cloud after playing on the slopes
I'll go back to heaven again.
At the end of my outing to this beautiful world
I'll go back and say: It was beautiful. . . .
Chon Sang-Pyong