Hee Jin Chong
Heejin Chong was born in Korea. She obtained BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, and MFA from Pratt Institute, New York in the U.S. She had 9 solo shows and numbers of group shows in Seoul, New York, and abroad. She taught Art and Art History in Hongik University, Suwon University, Chungbuk National University, Daejin University, and Hyupsung University, from 1996 to 2003. Hee-Jin Chong is working and living in New York City as a painter and an editor for Art Price, a Korean monthly art magazine.
Heejin Chong’s recent works are jestural abstract paintings; she established her own style of expression. She is mostly using hands and paint knives as her tools of expression. Her gestures are a connection between the intuitive mind and physical action. She stated that the canvas is mind space, rather than a two dimensional plane. “The canvas is not just a two-dimensional surface for me; it comes to me as a mind space. Metaphorically, I’m walking into my canvas trying to grasp something that I captured and I want to find. I'm scratching the canvas with my hands and knives as for screaming, crying, and fighting with fear and my anxiety. And again, I’m dancing on my canvas. Verbal expression is unnecessary and explanations are meaningless. After I bleed out all that matters, everything explodes from my mind onto the canvas. I feel catharsis. I become free. Then, I’m just walking into the world of my mind, Refreshed and whole again.”
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