SooJin Jeong

In her most recent works, SooJin Jeong rejects her previous figurative style in an attempt to explore her Buddhist faith.  Based in Zen philosophy, Jeong’s gouaches are careful abstract arrangements of lucid color and undulating shape, rejecting trivial things to reveal the truer reality in which beauty exists without ego, desire, or want.  Her translucent colors possess a liquid quality, flowing over the paper and mimicking the transient nature of life.  The artist’s hand is almost completely erased in these organic works, giving the impression that they merely exist, rather than having been created.

Having spent most of her life in Korea, Jeong’s work is both deeply personal and reflective of her native cultural influences.  She uses her work not only to explore her own complex biographical narrative, but to engage in a dialogue with the viewer and examining her work becomes a spiritual experience for each individual, an ever changing and impermanent journey.  SooJin Jeong lives and works in New York.