The Heidi Cho Gallery takes great pleasure in announcing our new exhibition:

 

Younhee Paik, Ceiling Installation

 

Exhibition Dates: May 14 – June 26, 2004
Reception: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:00 - 8pm

 

 

Younhee Paik is a mature painter, educated in Korea she received her BFA in painting from Seoul National University, and lived many years in San Francisco where she received her MFA. She moved to New York in part because she wanted to see what it would be like “to live in an ocean”.

Paik's art has its basis in her Christian beliefs, intense spirituality abounds. There are many symbols and icons which appear in the artist's work. We see upright fish, ladders, the bows of boats and night skies replete with brilliant stars.

Jonathan Goodman says in the artist's latest catalogue in describing her painting, “Part of their grandeur is the long receding perspective which invests much of Paik's work with mystery and longing, not unlike the dramatic depths of Kiefer's landscapes”.

The artist has a very basic method of paint application in the ceiling pieces, paint is poured first and then applied with a simple broom and house-painting roller. The result is a light and airy ground, which remains the backdrop for the starry skies.

Younhee Paik's work is visual poetry taking the viewer on an extraordinary journey to a heavenly place.