Lee Jinju graduated from the Department of Eastern Painting at Hongik University (2003) and completed a master’s course at its graduate school. She has been working as an exclusive artist at Arario Gallery and works in Seoul.
DOOSAN
Gallery New York is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Lee Jinju, an
artist who has garnered much attention for incorporating her contemporary and
personal sensibilities to Korea’s traditional painting methods, as our first
exhibition of 2014. As the artist’s New York debut, this exhibition will
comprise of representative paintings from 2009 to the present.
Lee
Jinju connects commonplace objects from our daily surroundings to dreams and
memories, creating a personal and surreal narrative that expresses the dynamic
and multi-layer inner life of contemporary beings. Materials like stockings,
water, dirt, and plastic bags that appear in A way to
Remember and Black and Burning One were selected
by the artist repetitively asking herself questions, and therefore symbolically
reveal memories of her experience as well as her private everyday life.
By
using Korean ink and colored fabrics, Lee creates an exquisite and realistic
portrayal of the space of memory embedded inside her subconscious and places
that do not exist in reality? thus showing a delicate sensitivity
characteristic of Korean art that is uncommon in Western oil painting.
In
keeping with DOOSAN Gallery New York's continuous recent programming
highlighting Korean Painting, Lee Jinju's exhibition will provide a good
opportunity to observe the Identity and potential in Korean Contemporary
Painting.
