Jung Hoon Park 

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Biography

In contemporary life, we are exposed to text all the time. Text contains information, order, ideas, and direction. Often, texts are written unclearly and translated into different languages that we sometimes misread and misunderstand. Constant exposure to two different languages, Korean and English, reveals the authority and power that language contains.

My work involves paintings and drawings in acrylic, oil sticks, and charcoal in large scale. Because I like making marks with firmness directly on to the rigid surface, I use materials such as paper, wood panel and dry wall. Working at a large scale gives me more freedom to think and express. The expansive boundaries of the large scale give me the freedom to explore my ideas and powerful emotions.

My fundamental question comes from different perspectives. Growing up and living in Korea, but attending schools in America—military school, Quaker school, Jewish school, and an art school—I experienced diverse standpoints that eventually led me to ask questions. There are no right answers but through looking in different perspectives, expressed with various materials, I want to embrace them all into one form and one moment.

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