Pierrot’s Journey

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

28^th Annual Exhibition, Korean Artists Society of Canada

2019

51^st 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

29^th 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