Jungwook Kim 2012, Korean ink on Korean paper, 162.5 x 112 cm
Jungwook Kim 2012, Korean ink on Korean paper, 170 x 116.5 cm
"The silent state of the figures is derived from Jungwook Kim’s way of life. She records every moment of life with her head and mind, and opens herself up to all kinds of forms and methods of life. Like a contemplative and observant poet writing down a line implying thoughts and memories about life, living things, death and people, she delivers her feelings through repetitive brush strokes.
Jungwook Kim 2010, Korean ink on Korean paper, 168 x 116 cm
Jungwook Kim 2012, Korean ink on Korean paper, 20 x 20 cm
She thinks and keeps thinking. She covers and keeps covering. She draws and keeps drawing. Like a short line of text can be visualized as all kinds of sensitive images and shapes in one’s head, Jungwook Kim’s work is like a sensitive gift comforting the viewers. She doesn’t have strong likes or dislikes towards the concepts that people tend to define as the opposites, such as beauty and ugliness, good and bad, bright and dark, happiness and anxiety, or comfort and wounds. Jungwook Kim attempts to understand ‘their natural state of being’ and spreads out that very moment of sympathy on paper. Likewise, Jungwook Kim’s unbound way of seeing represents another outlook on the world and gives us a certain shining moment." —Yunkyong Kim
Jungwook Kim 2009, Korean ink on Korean paper, 162 x 130 cm
Jungwook Kim 2012, Korean ink on Korean paper, 27 x 21cm
Jungwook Kim 2008, Korean ink on Korean paper, 162 x 112 cm
Jungwook Kim 2008, Korean ink on Korean paper, 162 x 111.5 cm
Jungwook Kim 2008, Korean ink on Korean paper, 145.5 x 129 cm
Jungwook Kim 2007, Korean ink on Korean paper, 74 x 129 cm
Jungwook Kim was born in Seoul in 1970. She lives and works in Seoul, Korea. She is well known for her ‘black portrait’ series executed in Korean traditional painting technic. The unique sensibility of her painting has already attracted many art people around the world. Jungwook Kim’s art comforts us and we can feel alive by sharing artist’s emotions.
