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Artist Statement:
I have high expectations for my life.
I want my life to be perfect, filled with true beauty and purity.
I am waiting for love which contains all these qualities.
However, what I have found in life is mostly failures and my share of despair, confusion,
frustration and anger. What I can do in this paradox and contradiction is to be receptive without complaint and try to create a new world.
Painting is the breakthrough for the problem that I face. At the same time, it is a tool of my life’s vestige. These expectations might be considered to have nothing to do with the real world or just the thoughts of a naïve dreamer but nonetheless it gives me an ultimate goal and direction in this desolate, harsh life. The fear that I might not accomplish my life’s expectations always create strain between hope and despair. But it empowers me to make paintings which are a physical and visual representation of my inner struggles.
I close my eyes, I observe my heart and I try to visualize images that I see.
When I see, I paint and then I scrape some of the pigment off. Sometimes...
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Exhibitions for Soojung Cho:
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Solo Exhibition
*Asiantique & Decor Gallery, Englewood, NJ.
June, 2002
*Chong-kyo Methodist Church, Seoul, Korea.
Sept,2001
*Morning Calm Gallery, New York. May,2000
*Art Miami, represented by M.J. International.
Jan, 1992
Group Exhibition
*Cork Gallery in Lincoln Center. New York, NY. Nov. 2002
*Space Gallery. Flushing, NY, Oct. 2002
*Korean American Artists Association, Gallery 32.
New York, NY. July, 2002
*Korean American Artists Association, Greeley Gallery.
New york, NY. Feb. 2002
*NY Center for Media Arts. LIC, NY. April, 2001
*Christian Artists Exhibition, Queens, NY. July, 1999
*Institute of the National Museum of Modern Art.
Seoul, Korea. May, 1982
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