Jeane Yoon
- Introduction of Artist
- Jeane Yoon, an artist who captures the fleeting beauty of nature’s transformations through mother-of-pearl, studied Architectural Design at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Having lived abroad since her high school years, she grappled with questions of identity between Eastern and Western cultures. For her, the sea has always been a source of solace; the undulating waves and shifting hues of the ocean became the foundation of her practice.
Mother-of-pearl possesses the unique quality of subtly shifting with the angle of light. In her Iridescent Serenity series, the material shimmers like sunlight breaking upon the waves or the frothy crest of the sea. Rather than depicting the ocean in its literal form, Yoon reassembles the emotional fragments she experiences each time she encounters the sea. The iridescence changes entirely with the viewer’s movement and the play of light, embodying the fragments of emotion she felt in front of the water.
In the Ethereal Drift series, Yoon expands her material vocabulary by incorporating acrylic paint, sand, and linen alongside mother-of-pearl. Here, the seashell inlay signifies the ocean, the sand symbolizes the passage of time, and the exposed linen reveals the raw grain of nature. The interplay of these textures lends tension to the canvas, highlighting each material’s distinctive quality. Rather than replicating nature as it appears, she constructs abstract compositions through color, surface, and line. These distilled forms accentuate the singular beauty of mother-of-pearl, balancing contemporary sensibilities with traditional materials. Each hue arises from memories of gazing at nature, serving as a diary of impressions transposed onto the canvas.
Yoon focuses on the lightness of mother-of-pearl, offering new interpretations of the material. Painstakingly cutting and affixing countless fragments, she builds her images piece by piece. This meditative process allows her to embed the serenity she once found by the sea into each sliver of nacre, while simultaneously attaining psychological calm through repetition.
Her practice extends beyond two-dimensional works into furniture and spatial installations. In 2024, she collaborated with Sulwhasoo to create mother-of-pearl tables, exhibited alongside the brand’s displays, evoking both tradition and refined modern aesthetics. Traversing cultural boundaries, Yoon continues her exploration of light, color, and form, reimagining a time-honored material in a contemporary idiom.
Nature’s transformations are organic and quiet, yet imbued with profound strength capable of shaping human experience. Yoon perceives a resonance between this flow of nature and the endless inner transformations of human life. She strives to craft her own visual language that conveys not only the image of nature, but also the intimate emotions that arise in response to it.
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