Scene, Object

Min Ah Lee

Jung showcases her ability to mould and shape through her compositional and contrastive experimentation with colors. I felt the sincerity of an artist through the directions left by this very colorful trace. The brightness of the paintings seems to leak light through the cracks, and consequently attributes a strange atmosphere to the works. Repeated brush strokes weave like waves on a screen, and the use of watercolors that contrast light and dark expresses the instantaneity of light and its afterimage. The contrast between bright and dark, cold and warm colors and the traces of brush movement ultimately foment a formative experience that speaks to us by way of the works' scenery and imagery.

Simplified and dismantled natural objects and the resulting landscapes are consistently maintained as subjects of Jung's works and are used as overall motifs. Of course, the scenes and shapes expressed on canvas are open to interpretation to the viewer. In her previous works, Jung gradually shifted from detailed description to abstraction in her portrayal of nature and scenery — experimenting with perspective, visual effects, and materials in the projection of paintings. The notable difference in her recent works is the artist's use of virtual reality technology via computer programs to separate color and interpret landscapes through paper thin imagery.

Virtual reality provides a stimulating, visual experience by allowing our minds to swim through razor thin images despite rendering our bodies dull in weightlessness. Through the landscapes of reality carved in virtual space, Jung utilizes these scenic elements that are evocative of simple ridges, rivers, and willow trees in the spring wind and ultimately fosters new methods to understand and interpret scenery. Try adapting to the scenes and objects off of your fingertips and eyes vis-a-vis Jung's acrylic imagery. In reconstructing the perspectives and objects contained within the various acts, you will find new ways to interpret Jung's experiment that underlie the tangled colors of her works.