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Artist Statement for Sun Young Chyun
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I am interested in the inherent, deconstructed nature of all things, the multiplicity of our visions and the mutability of our perceptions. I utilize Painting as a way of thinking, a site for my own physical experience and spiritual enlightenment. Therefore my paintings are a momentary coalescing of qualities that are inherently complex and unstable: perception, reality, memory and meaning. Rather than depicting a specific subject or object, the emphasis is on the mutable process of becoming, rather than the fixed state of being.
My artistic practice is a personal inner narrative as I try to disengage from material embodiment. I use the landscape as a metaphor to mediate on the material world. Although the perversely seductive "vessels" that populate the paintings register as molecules, cells or embryos, these ˇ°vesselsˇ± exist in a highly contingent, intuitive framework that function as metaphors and mediations on transience and impermanence. The visually sensuous, biomorphic forms represent the inherent nature of being, disengaged from material embodiment.
As the vessels evolve, crusade, and decay, they narrate a psychological journey towards the paradisiacal. Together, the vessels form a disjointed community of nebulous identities, each with little sense of belonging or purpose. This anxiety of dislocation stems from my personal experiences of constant relocations between Korea, Singapore and the US.
Continuing in the tradition of Abstract Expressionism, the painting process is led by emotion and instinct over pictorial conventions. It involves an alchemical process that physically transforms paint into image, illuminating the tension between the prosaic material world and the poetic immaterial world, as well as the transformation of action into thought. In this organic process, layers of splashes, swirls and drips converge to create a subconscious reference to the cyclical growth, evolution, and decay of the natural world.
My questions the purpose for existence and relationships. The need here comes from not just existential angst, social insecurities or spirituality, but from the human urge to question and procreate. I explore the complex and wrought Contemporary spirit of Romanticism and feminism in search of hope, renewal and escape. This is the faculty in which I constitute reality, perceive the world around me, but also in part create it. Uniting reason and feeling, my imagination is the ultimate synthesizing faculty, enabling me to reconcile differences and opposites in a world of appearance.
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