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May 29 - July 12, 2008
Oh ChiGyun: Defining LandscapeCurated by Raúl Zamudio
Oh ChiGyun
Oh ChiGyun: Defining Landscape is a one-person show that surveys one of Korea's premier artists. The exhibition brings together many works from a growing corpus that spans close to two decades of artistic activity. Oh ChiGyun was born in Chungnam, South Korea in 1956, and many things differentiate his art from that of his peers in both his native country and abroad, including an individual style that borrows from art historical precedence and is coupled with contemporary innovation. Some of the things that distinguish Oh ChiGyun's approach to painting are his strong yet sensitive palette, pictures that are highly textured from pigment being amply applied to their surfaces, and his use of other support material other than canvas including found and discarded doors and windows. But the most unique aspect of Oh ChiGyun's art is his technique in which he applies paint to his pictures directly with his hands rather than by brush. Oh ChiGyun's idiosyncratic métier creates an immediacy and intimacy between imagination, subject matter, and artistic execution. The paintings presented here and that evince this eclectic, aesthetic sensibility were made in various locales including New York City and South Korea. Oh ChiGyun's depictions created in these geographically and culturally disparate places portray a wide range of humanity and nature including city scenes, county vistas, Arcadian-like landscapes rife with flora and fauna as well as everyday activities such as dog-walking. Oh ChoGyun's thematic of what is ostensibly the quotidian is compelling in its imagistic power to evoke a plethora of emotions that span the breadth of human experience. As the paintings and the exhibition presented here make quite clear, then, is that life in general shapes Oh ChiGyun's art which, in turn, becomes integral to the way he artistically defines his subject matter including the city, its inhabitants, and, of course, the landscape.
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