H. Jinny Jung

Korean artist H. Jinny Jung uses color, shape and line to create fluid layers evocative of the traces that moving points of light make in long photographic exposures and rippling, diaphanous surfaces. Her paintings are vibrant explorations of the psychology of the inner mind.  Jung states, “My work does not attempt to describe something, but rather to give expression to inner feeling.” Thus, her body of work is largely unified, since it is an attempt to lay bare one individual’s inner landscape. That consistent interiority, though, in no way mitigates the application of exterior craft, as her abstract oils are anything but random applications of paint to canvas. Each color is carefully chosen for its ability to join with its mates in lines and fields, drips and washes that cohere to give each canvas an artistic unity. Jung’s works are full of an almost life-sustaining energy.

Born in Seoul, Korea, she attended the Ewha Womans University in Seoul, and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. H. Jinny Jung currently resides in San Anselmo, CA.