May 26 – May 30, 2021
2021년 5월 26일 – 5월 30일
M Gallery, CICA Museum
‘Solitary’ : being, living, or going alone or without companions.
This new series of works is derived from “Lonesome”, an earlier series, created in 2019-2020. The Lonesome Series sought to reveal a concentrated emotional depiction of the ‘warmth of soleness’, a phrase I have begun to use to describe this work. However, this new series, is more of a conversational record of the exploding experience of the solitary moments, in itself.
Within the sole stance, in a reoccurring tense, one can imagine a weaving back and forth between the mood of silence and explosive interludes. Such narratives find echos on the picture plane and through the layers of the abstract elements.
The color and texture of the surfaces are created from the repeated process of wetting and drying various shades of yellow-greenish Hanji Papers. The wetting/coloring is done with the artist-made watercolor, and the drying is done through the different amount of sunlight/dry-time. The slow and natural process creates subtle differences to each paper, which becomes a huge part of the work’s narrative.
The slight variation of color and thickness, also occurs in the same surface of the artwork. The subtle variety of wetted shadows adds up a big portion of each work’s imagery and reacts to the elements painted and drawn on top of the paper.
This work was conceived as an immersive experience in the feeling of exploding gravity in a “sole stance”. It is best experienced when there is room to stand back, and allow a moment of contemplation as you imagine yourself with in the scenery.
Hyunhee Doh is a Chicago local artist, studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago(SAIC) searching for BFA degree. Her range of visual elements, material and context merges the two different boarders of culture, from eastern to western world.
She is originally from South Korea, and her current residence is based in Chicago. Exploring a variety of regions, her artistic practice developed based on uninhibited range of experiences. While the exploration, numbers of vary exhibition has happened internationally, concentratively in Korea and Chicago area. The most recent funding she has received is from a Jeolla-do State Government in amount of 80,000 dollars, for a huge group show called [JAF] with artist group in Chicago(CKAAA), took place in South Korea, 2019. The support by South Korean government for this show was not only financial but culturally integrated, as CKAAA is the Artist Coalition Group which was established in 1985 and has active history of exchanging arts with Korea-based artists over years. With such experiences, her activities in art shows and exhibition are dynamically happening through international and local based galleries.
Hyunhee Doh 도현희, Exploding Solitary_021 (2021)