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JANGMEE PARK
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Drawing is a kind of visual language of many presentations to indicate myself. Whether by chance or not, different images are expressed and showed in paintings concerning life or culture. All events experienced in life are connected with a film called consciousness and unconsciousness. This film is manifested once again through making up a print of works.
Life itself is a story of a person, and at the same time the story is the matter of general or abstract things experienced in living a life. For example, the desire to gain absolute freedom, an impossible achievement in the real world, could be sought for. Yet, once the attempts continue to yield nothing, the minds also could end up frustrated about passed time.
The square showed in my picture plane represents the limited life and substance put in artificial circumstance; the line and vestige collaborating inside speak of restricted freedom, while the ones moving outside exclaim about liberty and dreams. Like this, in my paintings, both of these special features placed in people match a square, an unfixed shape; a vestige and a line above a picture plane represents an original scenario about dreams themselves. At this time, shape and colour in all appearances come to be illuminated and viewed through the eyes again. What is fascinating is that this process lets people see shape and colour as real or abstract. Like dreams, art is a colourful blend of imagination and experience. Thus, when people dream, they can think of anything- real or unreal. Dream is the generative power of new creation; the transcending of time and place including the invisible dimension.
In conclusion, I introduce a mime to you a language representing myself. It lets other people make unlimited imaginations liberal. Like dreaming or opening the soul, this makes my imagination different and free. Life is recorded by the world, its changes varying on the vision of society. My idea is to discover and express the views I carry; my paintings are extensions of myself, with accompaniments named colour and shape.
BIOGRAPHY
Jangmee Park was born in Seoul, Korea in 1964. She received her BFA and MFA from
the Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul and began exhibiting her works in 1988.
Whether they are on paper or on canvas, small or large, Park’s paintings are filled with
playful imagery and daring colours. Paint, oil pastels and collage are juxtaposed with
confidence. According to the artist, her abstract compositions are meant as a
representation of human life. Life, like Park’s art, is an accumulation of memories, of
shapes, moments and colours. Park’s work can therefore be interpreted as a mapping of
human experiences.
Today, galleries across Canada and the United States represent Park’s work.
EDUCATION
1988
B.F.A. Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul
1990
M.F.A. Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul
SOLO EXHIBITION
1992
The first solo exhibition in Yoon Gallery , Seoul
1995
The second solo exhibition in Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul
2001
The third solo exhibition in Market Station Bar, Ottawa
2003
The fourth solo exhibition in Atrium Gallery, Ottawa
2005
The Fifth solo exhibition in Zilberschmuck Gallery, Toronto
GROUP EXHIBITION
1988-1999
Group exhibitions in Korea (Korean Contemporary Prints Public Subscription, Korea National Art Exhibition, Contemporary Art of the Spot Exhibition, Dong-A Fine Arts Festival, The 8th Print Academy Exhibition, and Chaerim Exhibition, etc.)
2000-2003
Korea Art Association in Montreal
2001-2002
Art Lending of Ottawa Exhibition, Nepean Fine Art League Exhibition, Ottawa Art Association Exhibition, and Mixed Media Exhibition in Ottawa
2003
Art in the Park Exhibition at Spring Bank Arts in Mississauga
2004
Toronto Outdoor Exhibition in Toronto, City Art Fall Artists Show in Metro Hall Rotunda in Toronto
2005
Group Show in Bering and James Gallery, Houston, Texas
2007
Group Show in State of the Art Gallery in Toronto, 30th Annual Juried Exhibition of Fine Arts in Art Gallery of Mississauga
2008
31st Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts in the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and Fine Arts Juried Show in Living Arts Centre
2009
Resident Artists’ Show in Living Arts Centre
2009
Seeing with Closed Eyes: Five Abstract Artists Exhibition in Art Gallery of Mississauga, and KASC 18th Annual Exhibition in Dosan Hall Gallery
2009
19th Annual Mistletoe Magic Silent Auction in John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto
2009-2010
Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts in Art Gallery of Mississauga *2009/2010 Auction for Fine Arts in Art Gallery of Mississauga
2010-2012
Korean Art Society of Canada Exhibition at the Dosan Hall Gallery
2013
The Artist Project at the Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto Art on the Credit at the Waterside Inn, Mississauga Oakville Art Tour at the Sovereign House
2014
Korean Art Society of Canada Exhibition at the Joseph D. Carrier Gallery
2013-2015
The Artist Project at the Better Living Center in Toronto
2015
Korean Art Society of Canada Exhibition at the Dosan Hall Gallery
2015
OSA Annual Exhibition as an Emerging Artist at the Papermill Gallery in Toronto
2016-2017
OSA Annual Exhibition as an Emerging Artist at John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto
2018
OSA Members’ Exhibition of Selected Works at Papermill Gallery, Toronto
2018
Great Art Contest by Art Emporium by the River at Port Hope
2019
28th Annual Exhibition, Korean Artists Society of Canada
2019
51st International Juried Exhibition, Society of Canadian Artists
2019
OSA Members’ Show
2020
Drawing Show at John B. Aird Gallery (Toronto)
2020
OSA Juried Exhibition at Temiskaming Art Gallery of Ontario
2020
OSA Open Juried Exhibition (Online)
2020
29th Annual Exhibition at the Korean Artists Society of Canada (Online)
2021
Sep. OSA MESW Exhibition Nelson Park Community Center Gallery
2021
Oct.2- Nov.28 Breath. Heart. Spirit. Celebrating 150 years of the Ontario Society of Artist
Glenhyrst Art Gallery Brantford Ontario
2021
Starting Oct.15 69th Annual Open Juried Exhibition online at Colour and Form Society
ASSOCIATIONS
Member of Nepean Fine Art
Member of Art Association of Ottawa
Member of Ottawa Mixed Media
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