Exhibition Information

The bird and the cage
2019 Acrylic on paper 90x70cm

Stadium
2019 oil on canvas 53x72.7cm

komorebi
2019 oil on canvas 150x150cm

			Lee You-jin Gallery will host the exhibition <Green Paintings> by Kim Hye-na, Jeon Byung-gu and Im So-dam from April 24 to May 24. About 60 planar paintings, drawings and ceramics that capture the memories of contemporary artists and scenes from everyday life, will be a stopgap for Koreans living in grey urban areas.

Kim Hye-na (b. 1981) observes the world with her delicate sensibility and records her daily life in drawing and painting like a picture diary. I walk my dog every day at a certain time and draw pictures whenever it's lighted. Reflections on life and a keen appreciation of it have been recorded in several drawing books on the graffiti in time by a healthy, relaxed writer who has become a habit. The small drawing books were first showcased through the exhibition as a source of inspiration that stretched out from the author's unrefined imagination and intuition. The landscape, which is a familiar walk path for a long time but depends on seasonal changes or the writer's feelings, is an abstract landscape that combines imagination of hidden parts rather than recreating them, illustrating the tendency of close work to pile up multiple layers of density before.

Writer Im So-dam (b. 1985) shows the body's senses and perceptual forms through painting and ceramics based on memories of personal experiences. "What interests me in painting is not the image itself, but the way I treat images and the work I get from them as a byproduct of them is the coexistence of familiarity and unfamiliarness," says the author. Using the images collected by the flash burst, the company has recently been working on a face-to-face screen, breaking away from previous works that used to use the screen with tension-sensitive brushstrokes and colors. Along with increasingly abstract-changing images, the company accidentally encounters a new medium of ceramic style in 2012 and is expanding its boundaries into synesthetic areas that cannot be expressed in paintings. In painting, his circular way of working with clay pottery again drawing on porcelain is very naturally visualizing his own sensibility.

Jeon Byeong-gu (b. 1985) presents a painting with a unique, calm lyricism of the moment, scenes, and seemingly ordinary scenes such as people and objects that have attracted his or her daily life. Jeon's style, which seems to contain his or her own narratives that do not overlap in color more than one layer, is also related to his attitude toward the world. The tranquil landscape is peaceful, but unknown, past loneliness, and the emotions of loss and deprivation grow in the face and back of people. The characters and landscapes in the works, which leave a lasting impression for a while after seeing them, are at a certain distance from the object. While the author's interest in painting instruments was initially intended to convey a "story" on objects drawn by the artist, it gradually shifted to formal parts such as the concentration, thickness and texture of paint, the work world is expanding further by experimenting with the geometric elements of objects and dealing with the fundamental elements of patterned abstract painting from around 2017.

Kim Hye-na has held individual exhibitions at OCI Museum of Art, Gallery EM and Gallery 2, as well as group exhibitions at domestic and foreign institutions such as the Seoul Museum of Art and MK2 Art Space Beijing.
Im So-dam conducted group exhibitions at project space Sarubia Dabang, gallery, and other organizations, including the Kumho Museum of Art. 
Jeon Byung-gu presented his group exhibitions at the OCI Museum of Art, Space Willing & Dilling, Hite Collection and Sarubia Dabang. 

Writing: Lee Yu-jin Gallery