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Hwang YooJung

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Introduction of Artist
Hwang YooJung majored in Western painting at Ewha Womans University and received a Master of Education (Ed.M.) in Art and Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College. Her work originates from experiences of everyday spaces and objects encountered in daily life.

Rather than dramatic events or extraordinary scenes, her work begins with observation. The artist records repeatedly encountered objects and spaces through photographs and sketches, later revisiting them over time and focusing on the altered state of memory that emerges through recollection. Modest subjects—light passing through a window, a palette on a worktable, coffee cups, key rings, and flowers—serve as primary motifs that evoke traces of memory.

While Hwang renders her subjects with realism, representation itself is not her objective. She describes her approach as “perceived memory,” revealing memory as a process of selection and transformation. Methods of cutting, layering, and overlaying visualize how memory remains not as a complete image but as fragmented remnants.

Her works are primarily executed in acrylic on wooden panels. The panels, with their substantial thickness, are cut into silhouettes of coffee cups, flowers, and palettes, exposing the incomplete boundaries of memory. The colors and forms arranged across the surface establish a balance between concrete depiction and abstract composition, allowing the paintings to transcend the flat plane and acquire the presence of three-dimensional objects.

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