SUNROOM

SUNROOM, opening February 4 and on view until March 11, 2023, brings together five young Korean painters gaining increasing attention with their distinctively personal modes of visual expression. As with COLD PITCH, the 2022 group exhibition at BB&M, which similarly featured four young Korean artists, SUNROOM is conceived as a way to uncover the potential of noteworthy emerging talent and provide a platform for broader exposure. This exhibition focuses on new work by young artists dedicated to painting, a genre perennially thought to be in crisis yet enduring in its aesthetic force.

 

For this show, the five artists — Junghae Park, Sikyung Sung, Jieun Oh, Yun-young Jeong, and Sujin Choi — respond to the theme of SUNROOM as a visual metaphor and concept to create works that engage with ideas of abstraction, the interplay of shadow and light, as well as figurative styles that veer from the conventions of naturalism toward a space of imagination and contemplation.