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exhibitions
Upcoming Group Show OBSESSIONS Dec. 17, 2011 - Jan. 14, 2012 Opening reception: Saturday, Dec. 17, 5-7 pm In collaboration with composer, John Zorn's Obsessions Collective. www.cavinmorris.com/ |
 
PRESS RELEASE Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to present Kyung Jeon: Belle Rascal. For her second solo exhibition with the gallery, Jeon has chosen an approach that evokes her process - exhibiting a selection of small works, preparatory drawings, and pages from her sketchbook alongside two fully-realized large-scale paintings. Drawing influences from such disparate sources as children's fairytales, traditional Korean genre painting, and the eccentric worlds of Henry Darger and Hieronymus Bosch, Jeon's works explore in-depth issues of portraiture and narrative. The mural-sized Little Persons, Big Steps and A Weeping Willow (both 2009) offer sweeping vistas of seemingly fantastical lands. Elaborately-rendered, these locales are inhabited by diminutive characters, deliberately simplified to function as archetypes of male or female, adult or child, who play out various scenarios in a full spectrum of emotion. Allegorical microcosms in-and-of themselves, these works are balanced by Jeon's smaller paintings and drawings which focus more intently on individual characters and themes. Kyung Jeon was born in 1975 in Jersey City, New Jersey, and received her MFA in 2005 from the School of Visual Arts, NY. The recipient of the Scope Emerging Art Grant (2005), and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship (2003), Jeon was most recently awarded a grant from the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2009). Her work has been included in exhibitions in museums and galleries in Asia, South America, Europe and the United States, including the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul and the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Jeon lives and works in New York City. A catalog is available in conjunction with this exhibition. Tina Kim Gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm. For further information, please contact info@tinakimgallery.com or call (212) 716-1100. |
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Kyung Jeon
Korean-American ARTIST | PAINTER | DESIGNER Based in New York City, NY  follow on tumblr! follow on twitter join on facebook connect on linkedin subscribe to YouTube join my mailing list website design by Kyung Studios is a web design studio based in NYC specializing in artist and gallery websites. Contact us www.kyungstudios.com |
