Jisoo Hur 'Untitled'
Drawer 2- Untitled, 2016, Mixed media on paper, 12x9inches
Artist Statement
Since I have been working with photography and painting together, the idea ‘revisiting’ is a good keyword but at the same time it has been the one I endlessly have to overcome. I take photos on the street, at a crosswalk, on a bridge, or at a shop. Then I see sorted groups of the photos on my camera by date and location. It’s so fascinating to watch the named images because when I work on painting, unlike the photographs, there is no one but only myself to name the finished work. Whenever I revisit the names of locations, dates, and start to bring back the memory of that day, I feel I can be situated in a different stage for finalizing a new painting. I start therefore to draw some forms by reminding the imagery I brought from the photographs and slowly step up by adding more layers. Then the added paint starts all over again as it questions me about the action of painting. The painted part on my canvas always conducts itself as a mounted window showing a distorted landscape, however, is it really sky, the air, or sunlight shining through leaves? Or are they imaginary guidelines I conceived for figuring out at the very moment -how I can be there- ?
Artist Bio
I'm a painter and drawer living and working in New York, NY. I graduated Hunter College with a master degree in Fine Arts in Studio Art program in Spring 2019. I've participated in several group shows and two solo shows in the US and South Korea, and the most recent group show was at David Klein Gallery in Detroit, MI, where they are focusing on Post war abstractionists at their head gallery in Birmingham and Contemporary artists at Detroit branch.
Drawer 2- Untitled, 2016, Mixed media on paper, 12x9inches
Artist Statement
Since I have been working with photography and painting together, the idea ‘revisiting’ is a good keyword but at the same time it has been the one I endlessly have to overcome. I take photos on the street, at a crosswalk, on a bridge, or at a shop. Then I see sorted groups of the photos on my camera by date and location. It’s so fascinating to watch the named images because when I work on painting, unlike the photographs, there is no one but only myself to name the finished work. Whenever I revisit the names of locations, dates, and start to bring back the memory of that day, I feel I can be situated in a different stage for finalizing a new painting. I start therefore to draw some forms by reminding the imagery I brought from the photographs and slowly step up by adding more layers. Then the added paint starts all over again as it questions me about the action of painting. The painted part on my canvas always conducts itself as a mounted window showing a distorted landscape, however, is it really sky, the air, or sunlight shining through leaves? Or are they imaginary guidelines I conceived for figuring out at the very moment -how I can be there- ?
Artist Bio
I'm a painter and drawer living and working in New York, NY. I graduated Hunter College with a master degree in Fine Arts in Studio Art program in Spring 2019. I've participated in several group shows and two solo shows in the US and South Korea, and the most recent group show was at David Klein Gallery in Detroit, MI, where they are focusing on Post war abstractionists at their head gallery in Birmingham and Contemporary artists at Detroit branch.
Drawer 2- Untitled, 2016, Mixed media on paper, 12x9inches
Artist Statement
Since I have been working with photography and painting together, the idea ‘revisiting’ is a good keyword but at the same time it has been the one I endlessly have to overcome. I take photos on the street, at a crosswalk, on a bridge, or at a shop. Then I see sorted groups of the photos on my camera by date and location. It’s so fascinating to watch the named images because when I work on painting, unlike the photographs, there is no one but only myself to name the finished work. Whenever I revisit the names of locations, dates, and start to bring back the memory of that day, I feel I can be situated in a different stage for finalizing a new painting. I start therefore to draw some forms by reminding the imagery I brought from the photographs and slowly step up by adding more layers. Then the added paint starts all over again as it questions me about the action of painting. The painted part on my canvas always conducts itself as a mounted window showing a distorted landscape, however, is it really sky, the air, or sunlight shining through leaves? Or are they imaginary guidelines I conceived for figuring out at the very moment -how I can be there- ?
Artist Bio
I'm a painter and drawer living and working in New York, NY. I graduated Hunter College with a master degree in Fine Arts in Studio Art program in Spring 2019. I've participated in several group shows and two solo shows in the US and South Korea, and the most recent group show was at David Klein Gallery in Detroit, MI, where they are focusing on Post war abstractionists at their head gallery in Birmingham and Contemporary artists at Detroit branch.