Layered Spaces
Layered Spaces traces how different times, places, and viewpoints overlap and coexist within a single space.
Interwoven Threads | Red Scene | Threshold | Reflective Surface
<겹쳐 흐르는 공간>에서는 서로 다른 시간과 장소, 시점이 하나의 공간 안에서 겹쳐지고 공존한다.
얽혀 짜여진 시간 | 붉은 장면 | 경계 | 반사된 표면
Interstice_Double Passage 간극_이중 통로, 2026. Oil on canvas 182.9×122 cm | 72×48 inch
Spinola Hours_July: Leo 스피놀라 시간_7월: 사자자리 , 2023-2025. Oil on canvas 213.3×152.4 cm | 84×60 inch
Spinola Hours_December: Capricorn 스피놀라 시간_12월: 염소자리 2023-2025. Oil on canvas, 213.3×152.4 cm | 84×60 inch
Spinola Hours _ March, April (diptych) Installation view of INFEFINITE HISTORIES at the NewAlliance Foundation Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2023.
Spinola Hours_March: Aries, April: Taurus (Diptych) 스피놀라 시간_3월: 양자리, 4월: 황소자리 (딥티크) 2020-2022. Oil on canvas, 152.5×305 cm | 60×120 inch (overall)
Spinola Hours_March, April (details)
Spinola Hours_March, April (details)
Summer Garage_Kronborg 여름날의 차고_크론보그 2020. Oil on canvas, 90 × 70 in. (228.6 × 177.8 cm)
Things 사물들, 2021. Watercolor on canvas, 87½ × 60 in. (222.4 × 152.4 cm)
Doll Shelf_Hemi 인형장_혜미, 2023. Watercolor painted stuffed cotton objects, glass button jar, yarn, felt, acrylic on canvas, plaster stone, sewing pins, clay stands, glass bottles, wooden shelf, 19 ¼ × 33 × 5 ½ inch (49 × 84 × 14 cm)
Doll Shelf_Copenhagen Plates 인형장_코펜하겐 접시, 2023. Watercolor painted stuffed cotton objects, glass button jar, wooden spools, yarn, felt, acrylic on canvas, plaster stone, sewing pins, clay stands, glass bottles, wooden shelf, 19 ¼ × 40 × 5 ½ inch (49 × 101.5 × 14 cm)
Tulum 툴룸, 2023. Watercolor on muslin, felt, colored pencil, wooden spool, 6½ × 17½ × 5½(d) in. (16.5 × 44.5 × 13.5 (d) cm)
Doll Shelf 3 인형장 3, 2017-2020. Watercolor painted stuffed cotton objects in various sizes, found objects, yarn, felt, plaster stone, sewing pins, clay stands, wooden shelf, 19 ¼ × 37 ½ × 7 ½ inch (49 × 95.2 × 19 cm)
Doll Shelf Series 인형장 시리즈, 2017-2021. Watercolor painted stuffed cotton objects in various sizes, wooden shelf boxes, approx. 19 ¼ × 37 ½ × 7 ½ inch (49 × 95.2 × 19 cm) (each box)
Doll Shelf_Button Jar
2021. Watercolor painted stuffed cotton objects, glass button jar, yarn, felt, acrylic on canvas, plaster stone, sewing pins, clay stands, glass bottles, vintage glass flower frog, wooden shelf, red-tinted plexiglass, 19 ¼ × 37 ½ × 7 ½ inch (49 × 95.2 × 19 cm)
Details of the installation: Chamber of Memories at a solo exhibition: Red Scene at Arario gallery Seoul in 2022
Designing Pedestals 입체작업을 위한 좌대 디자인
2019. Graphite, oil on canvas, 27¾ × 21 inch (70.5 × 53.3 cm)
Puzzle_Parts 퍼즐_부분들, 2021. Oil on canvas, 36 × 72 in. (91.4 × 183 cm)
Cradle_Woven Spaces 요람_직조된 공간, 2021. Oil on canvas, 36 × 72 in. (91.4 × 183 cm)
On the workbench, three-dimensional structures and dolls, made through stitching, are scattered around, capturing moments of daily life. These pieces, created stitch by stitch, intertwine with each other, building layered spaces, much like how time overlaps to create new memories. Just as threads are woven together to form fabric, these different spaces intertwine to create a unified structure. The scattered three-dimensional pieces on the workbench form a landscape that feels as though time and memory have been intricately woven together. In this way, these woven spaces become a cradle that embraces memory.
작업대 위에는 바느질로 만들어진 입체 구조물과 인형들이 흩어져 있다. 일상의 모습을 스케치하듯 한 땀 한 땀 만들어진 이들은 서로 얽히며 겹겹이 쌓여, 마치 시간이 중첩되듯 새로운 공간을 만들어낸다. 씨실과 날실이 엮여 하나의 직물이 되듯, 이 공간들도 서로 엮이며 하나의 구조를 이룬다. 시간과 기억이 촘촘히 쌓여 만들어진 이 풍경은 단순한 작업 공간을 넘어, 기억을 품고 감싸는 요람이 된다.
A Group 군집, 2019-2021. Acrylic, crayon, oil on canvas, 24 × 24 in. ( 61 × 61 cm)
Paul's hole 폴의 깜깜한 구멍, 2020. Oil on canvas, 24 × 24 in. ( 61 × 61 cm)
Lampshade_Paul 전등갓_폴, 2018. Archival inkjet print, size variable.
Lightshade_Madame Curie 전등갓_퀴리부인, 2018. Archival inkjet print, size variable.
Embracing 포용, 2017. Tyvek paper, assorted found objects, appx. 11 × 24 × 8(d) inch (28 × 61 × 20(d) cm) each
Red Scene, 2012. Oil on canvas, 72×47¾ in. | 183×122 cm
This is the first piece of my Red Scene Series. This canvas is an image of my mother’s kitchen in South Korea as reflected on a polished surface of a red cabinet. It is a lingering memory. This is different from my other works that intertwine different scenes, yet it captures the two key ideas of threshold (hidden in-between spaces) and reflection(memory) in my work. The intact image of a reflected unpopulated kitchen space evokes my memories of our family. It is a mirage. It is a space for the viewers to fill in their own memories. The window in the kitchen is also found in the previous Threshold_ Bird Mobile.
Red Scene_ Avon, 2015. Oil on canvas, 72×60 in. | 183×152.4 cm
This is a series from Red Scene in 2013, which represents a view of my mother’s kitchen in Seoul, KR reflected within a polished surface of a red cabinet. I juxtaposed my memory of my own kitchen onto the Red Scene canvas. This painting seems to have a wall that divides the viewer from the space within the painting. Interestingly, as I added to the canvas, the emptier the canvas appeared. The painting juxtaposed the comfort of the familiar with the sadness of the unfamiliar.
Red Scene_Cage 1, 2020. Oil on canvas, 96×72 in. | 243.8×182.4 cm
Red Scene_Glyptotek, 2020. Oil on canvas, 96×72 inch | 243.8×182.8 cm
Red Scene_ Cage 2, 2021-2022. Oil on canvas, 72×48 inch | 182.8×122 cm
Red Scene_Heads 레드씬_얼굴들, 2021-2022. Oil on canvas, 48×36 inch | 122×91.2 cm
Red Scene_Heads is part of the Red Scene painting series, inspired by the artist’s mother’s kitchen and its red cabinet doors. Upon the reflection of everyday life captured on the glossy red surface, the artist overlays another layer—a workspace where dolls are being made. This workspace is not an actual reflection but a scene reconstructed from memory. As the artist crafted dolls, each carrying its own unique story, memories of the mother’s kitchen—once a mirror to daily life—naturally resurfaced. This process of recollection led to the merging of two unrelated moments into a single frame. The canvas features the distinct outlines and handles of the red cabinet doors, making it appear as though these layered images are reflections on their surface. Yet, at the same time, the painting evokes a liminal space where reality and dream intersect, capturing the fleeting moment where two times and places converge. For the artist, who grew up surrounded by the red walls of their mother’s kitchen, red has become an unconscious, evocative color of nostalgia. Now living far from home, this color serves as a vessel for memory, a thread weaving together past and present, time and emotion within the work.
레드씬_얼굴들 | Red Scene_Heads 은 엄마의 부엌, 붉은 찬장 문에서 착안한 레드씬 회화 연작 중 하나이다. 붉은색 찬장 문에 반사된 일상의 모습 위에 인형을 제작하는 작업대를 또 다른 레이어로 겹쳐 표현하였다. 작업대는 실제로 찬장 문에 반사된 풍경이 아니라 작가가 과거를 떠올리며 그려낸 장면이다. 각기 다른 이야기를 지닌 인형들을 제작하는 과정 속에서 작가는 과거에 일상의 모습들을 비추던 엄마의 부엌을 떠올렸고, 그 연상 작용을 통해 전혀 다른 두 장면을 한 화면 속에 섞어 놓았다. 캔버스에는 붉은 찬장 문의 경계선과 손잡이가 선명하게 그려져 있어, 마치 이 겹쳐진 장면들이 찬장 문 표면에 비친 듯한 느낌을 준다. 하지만 동시에, 현실과 몽상이 교차하는 듯한 분위기를 자아내며, 두 개의 시간과 공간이 맞닿아 있는 순간을 담아낸다. 또한, 엄마의 붉은 벽 부엌을 보며 자란 작가에게 붉은색은 무의식적으로 자리 잡은 ‘향수를 불러일으키는 색’이기도 하다. 고향을 떠나 살아가는 작가에게 이 색은 기억 속 풍경을 환기시키는 매개체로 작용하며, 작품 속에서 시간과 감정을 연결하는 중요한 요소로 자리한다.
Red Scene_Parts, 2020. Oil on canvas, 36×96 in. | 91.4×243.8 cm
Doll Shelf_Red Scene Series 2017-2021
Doll Shelf_Red Scene_1, 2017-2021. Watercolor painted stuffed cotton objects in various sizes, found objects, yarn, felt, plaster stone, sewing pins, clay stands, glass bottles, painted porcelain, wooden shelf, red-tinted plexiglass, 19 ¼ × 37 ½ × 7 ½ inch (49 × 95.2 × 19 cm)
Doll Shelf_Red Scene_3, 2017-2021. Watercolor painted stuffed cotton objects in various sizes, found objects, yarn, felt, plaster stone, sewing pins, clay stands, glass bottles, painted porcelain, wooden shelf, red-tinted plexiglass, 19 ¼ × 37 ½ × 7 ½ inch (49 × 95.2 × 19 cm)
Doll Shelf_Red Scene: Button Jar, 2021. Watercolor painted stuffed cotton objects, glass button jar, yarn, felt, acrylic on canvas, plaster stone, sewing pins, clay stands, glass bottles, vintage glass flower frog, wooden shelf, red-tinted plexiglass, 19 ¼ × 37 ½ × 7 ½ inch (49 × 95.2 × 19 cm)
Threshold_Sand Castle, 2012. Oil on canvas, 90×70 in. | 228.6×177.8 cm
Threshold_Mirror, 2012. Oil on canvas, 120×96 in. | 304.8×243.8 cm, four panels
Threshold_Sandy Beach_1, 2011. Oil on canvas, 88½×72 in. | 225×183 cm , two panels
National G. + Sand castle, 2009. Oil on canvas, 76¼×51 ¼ in. | 194×130.3 cm
Behind the Walls , 2015. Oil on canvas, 72×48 in. | 183×122 cm
This canvas depicts a party held at my home, seen through reflections in a two-way mirror. The mirrored figures are unable to communicate with one another. After arriving in the United States from South Korea, I experienced a deep sense of loneliness, and this work seeks to evoke that feeling of alienation.
Composition_Audiences, 2012. Oil, acrylic on canvas, 72×78 in. | 183×198 cm
Structure Study_Mirror, 2012-2013. Oil, acrylic on canvas, 90×84 in. | 228.6×213.5 cm
Threshold_Bird Mobile, 2012-2013. Oil on canvas, 72×72 in. | 182.88×182.88 cm
This is a major piece in my Threshold Series. “Threshold” implies an in-between space that both exists and is hidden from our awareness. It is a synthetic space created out of my merged memories. In the work, my memories of a garden in East Hampton, bird mobiles, baby pictures, and photography studios from different places and times overlap and converge. Borrowing from Jean Baudrillard, a simulacra becomes even more real than reality. The window depicted in this work is the same window in the next work Red Scene that connects the two pieces.
Beehive_Web
2015. Oil on canvas, 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm)
Knitting Sandy Beach
2013. Oil on canvas, 50 × 68 in. (127 × 172.72 cm)
This work reflects my interest in an abstract expression of the notion of “threshold,” deemphasizing figurative image associations. Borrowing images from the previous work Threshold_Mirror, knitting is a visually simplified diagram of mixing images and structuring narratives in an abstract way.
Threshold_Carousel (Diptych)
2011-2012. Oil on canvas, 64 × 102¼ in. (162.5 × 259.7 cm)
This diptych is part of my continuing Threshold Series. This painting is a visual attempt to capture fragments of my memories of the historic Jane’s Carousel at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Pet Plants_Fish Tank_3, 2020. Oil on canvas, 48×30 in. | 122×76 cm
Pet Plants_Fish Tank_2, 2020. Oil on canvas, 48×30 in. | 122×76 cm
Pet Plants_Fish Tank_1, 2020. Oil on canvas, 48×36 in. | 122×91.5 cm
Herb, 2010. Oil on canvas, 36×24 in. | 91.5×61 cm
Herb_Iggy Peck, 2010. Oil on canvas, 36×24 in. | 91.5×61 cm
Sculpainter, 2015. Oil on canvas, 51×63¾ in. | 129.54×162 cm
Venice + Knitting table (Triptych), 2008. Oil on canvas, 45¼×99¼ in. | 115×252 cm
Café Ceci Cela+Rm._1, 2007. Oil on canvas, 51¾×76¼ in. | 130.3×193.3 cm
Café Ceci Cela+Rm._2, 2007. Oil on canvas, 51¾×76¼ in. | 130.3×193.3 cm
Reflection (Triptych), 2008.Oil on canvas, oil on mirror, 28½×24 in. | 72.5×60.8 cm (canvas), 25½×49 in. | 65×124.5 cm (mirror)
Installation view at solo exhibition: Reflective Surface ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, 2008
A. Seo.+Dining Rm. (Diptych), 2008. Oil on canvas, 89½×143½ in. | 227.3×364 cm
Colosseum+Dressing Table_2, 2007. Oil on canvas, 63¾×89½ in. | 162×227.3 cm
Colosseum+Dressing Table_3, 2007. Oil on canvas, 63¾×89½ in. | 162×227.3 cm
Colosseum+Dressing Table_1, 2006. Oil on canvas, 59×86¾ in. | 150×220 cm
Erechtheion + Jeju Studio (Diptych), 2007. Oil on canvas, 89½×129 in. | 227.3×328 cm, (2panels)
Parthenon+PIC_Jenga, 2006. Oil on canvas, 67×88½ in. | 170×225 cm
Smithsonian+Rm_4, 2007. Oil on canvas, 72½×89¼ in. | 182×227 cm
Smithsonian + Rm_3, 2007. Oil on canvas, 89½×63¾ in. | 227.3×162 cm
Smithsonian + Rm_2
2007, oil on canvas, 64 × 78¾ in. (167 × 200 cm)
Smithsonian + Rm_1
2005, acrylic on canvas, 44 × 57¼ in. (112 × 145.5 cm)
MoMA + Rm._2
2006, oil on canvas, 67 × 51 in. (170 × 130 cm)
MoMA + Rm._3
2008, oil on canvas, 78¾ × 63¾ in. (200 × 162 cm)
MoMA + Studio_5
2008, oil on canvas, 78¾ × 63¾ in. (200 × 162 cm)
MoMA + Studio_1 (Diptych)
2006, oil on canvas, 63 × 78¾ in. (160 × 200 cm)
MoMA + Rm._1
2006, oil on canvas, 63 × 83¾ in. (160 × 213 cm) (2 panels)
Assisi de San Francesco + Rm.
2007, oil on canvas, 57¼ × 89½ in. (145.5 × 227.3 cm)
Frick Garden + Rm.
2005, acrylic on canvas, 51¼ × 76¼ in. (130.3 × 193.9 cm)
Frick Garden + Rm._1 (Diptych)
2005. Oil on canvas, 51¼ × 149¼ in. (130 × 378.8 cm)
Café Lalo + Studio
2005. Acrylic on canvas, archival injet print, glass, wooden frame, 35½ × 94¾ inch (90 × 241 cm) (Three pieces)
Sham + Rm.
2005. Acrylic on canvas, 39¼ × 90½ in. (100 × 230 cm)
Met + Rm.
2004. Inkjet printed OHP film, acrylic on canvas, 63 × 94¾ in. (160 × 214 cm) (3 panels)
G. Museum + Studio (Diptych)
2005. Acrylic on canvas, 76¼ × 86½ in. (194 × 220 cm)
Gothic + Rm.
2005. Acrylic on canvas, 78¾ × 63¾ in. (200 × 162 cm)
Gothic + Sand Castle
2007. Oil on canvas, 78¾ × 63¾ in. (200 × 162 cm)
Tablecloths
2004. Oil on canvas, 51¼ × 63¾ in. (130.3 × 162 cm)
Inner Space_Cupboard
2004. Acrylic on canvas, 51¼ × 63¾ in. (130.3 × 162 cm)
Window IV-Indian Red Oxide
2004. Oil on mirror, acrylic on canvas, H: 8 feet (300 cm), dimensions variable (5 pieces)
Installation view at Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul in 2004
Window IV-Indian Red Oxide (details)
2004. Oil on mirror, 22¾ × 15¾ in. (58 × 40 cm)
Inner Space-Dressing Table
2004. Oil on mirror, acrylic on canvas panel, 61¾ × 25½ in. (157 × 65 cm: mirror), 61¾ × 87½ in. (157 × 222 cm: canvas) (3 pieces)
Inner Space-Dressing Table (details)
Desktop Series_1 (Triptych)
2004. Graphite, acrylic on canvas, 35½ × 111 in. (90 × 282 cm)
Inner Space-Suitcase
2003. Acrylic on canvas, 47¼ × 19½ in. (120 × 50 cm), 2 panels
Cafe + Studio
2004. Oil paint on glass mirror, acrylic on canvas. Dimensions variable
Window II in Frame
2003. Acrylic on paper, 31½ × 39¼ in. (80 × 100 cm)
Window I - Interactive
2003. Oil on mirror, wooden molding frame, 30 × 53½ in. (76 × 136 cm)
Window III in Living Rm
2003. Acrylic on canvas, 47¼ × 55¼, 35¾ × 16¼, 44¼ × 59¾ in., (120 × 140.5, 91 × 41, 112.5 × 152 cm) (Three canvas panels)
Installation view with Window I-Interactive at gallery ARTINUS, Seoul in 2003
Window III in Living Rm
2003. Oil on mirror, acrylic on canvas, 47½ × 55½, 51 × 63¾, 45 × 51 in., (120 × 140.5, 130 × 162, 115 × 130 cm) (from the left, four panels)
Installation view at gallery ARTINUS, Seoul in 2003
Interior Study
1999. Acrylic, inkjet printed OHP film on canvas, 28½ × 23¾ in. (72.7 × 60.6 cm)
Cabbage Doll Sawing Machine and National Geographic
2001. Acrylic on canvas, 28½ × 35¾ in. (72.7 × 90.9 cm)
Deviation
1999, inkjet printed OHP film, acrylic on canvas, plexiglass, 8¼ × 11½ in. (21 × 29 cm) (each/8 panels)
Deviation (details)
1999. Acrylic, binder, OHP film on canvas, 8¼ × 11½ in. (21 × 19.7 cm)
Deviation (details)
1999. Acrylic, binder, OHP film on canvas, 8¼ × 11½ in. (21 × 19.7 cm)
Deviation (details)
1999. Acrylic, binder, OHP film on canvas, 8¼ × 11½ in. (21 × 19.7 cm)
Deviation (details)
1999. Acrylic, binder, OHP film on canvas, 8¼ × 11½ in. (21 × 19.7 cm)
Deviation (details)
1999. Acrylic, binder, OHP film on canvas, 8¼ × 11½ in. (21 × 19.7 cm)
Deviation (details)
1999. Acrylic, binder, OHP film on canvas, 8¼ × 11½ in. (21 × 19.7 cm)