Teddy bears, oil on canvas, 130x342cm, 2010
Fungi, oil on canvas, 162x390cm, 2010
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Heo, SuYoung
Born in 1984, Korea
Education
2010 M.F.A in Fine Art at Seoul National University of Technology, Seoul, Korea
2008 B.F.A in Fine Art at Seoul National University of Technology, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 <The smaller majority> Zaha museum, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
<Korea Tomorrow>, SETEC, Seoul, Korea
<A reflection oon the process in art> Moran museum, Gyeonggido, Korea
<Art Road 77, 2th>, Gallery Art Factory, Paju, Korea
<Exchange>, Cheongju Art Studio , Cheongju, Korea
<Journey to Separate Ways>, Soheon Contemporary, Daegu, Korea
2009
<2009 Young Art Project, Portfolio Review>, Daegu KT&G Annex, Daegu, Korea
<Dimension Variable 2>, Gallery Boda contemporary, Seoul, Korea
<Dimension Variable 1>, Topohaus, Seoul, Korea
2008
<ASIAF, When We First Met>, Seoul Station Old bldg, Seoul, Korea
<Rethink>, Grimson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007
<Ahck>, Deokwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
These paintings are a pictorial manifestation of a book. In this method, I painted countless images from photograph collections that I’ve gathered into one page. The photograph collections composed with fine quality images selected through the process of publication were a great subject matter for painting, and every single page of the collections was, to me, like a problem to solve. Whether I like it or not, this method that I devised – painting a whole book – worked as some kind of mechanism that made me paint a picture continuously without thinking. The condensed images produced on the canvas are thought to be different manifestations of artistic force that has been piled up in my mind. This embracement and expression of my artistic force through the condensation and expansion of a vast amount of information is a challenge, and also a discipline for my painting.