Yea Jin Song

Born in South Korea, Song now lives and works in New York.

My paintings are composed of abstract spaces where architectural forms, fantastic landscapes, living creatures and geometric patterns are forced to intermingle. They resist readings of linear time and space. They confuse the past with the moment at hand, blurring the line between the actual event and its recollection. Through combining hyper-realistic objects with ambiguous forms on larger than life-size canvases, I hope to express the conflicted, malleable nature of memory. My large canvases hold many forms that coexist like the chaotic excess of data that swims in my memory. The complexity of the interactions between images is heightened by my use of layered acrylic and oil paints. I embrace the confusion and cacophonous imagery, hoping not to discredit the event or its simulation but to recognize a third reality in their colorful union.