Artist Residency, Créer des ponts, Art Souterrain, 2021, Montreal, QC.
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Jongwook Park, a settler artist from South Korea, is approaching his drawing as a fundamental tool of his practice. By using it as his voice, while processing pictorial elements from various cultural references such as Korean Folk paintings and Graphic Novels, he attempts to discover the unique treatment of line drawing for his works within flat, dimensional, and moving formats.
He holds an MFA in Communication Design from Sangmyung University (Seoul) and a diploma in Animation Art and Design from LaSalle College (Montreal). He attempts to draw on traditional art practices while adopting new techniques and is distinguished by his unique treatment of line drawing. His work has been presented in exhibitions and publications in Canada, the United States, Finland, South Korea, and Japan. |
Appearances
2023 ART BREAK / PAUSE D'ART - a series of online demonstration of 6 selected artists
2022 Art Souterrain Créer des ponts - JongWook Park
2023 ART BREAK / PAUSE D'ART - a series of online demonstration of 6 selected artists
2022 Art Souterrain Créer des ponts - JongWook Park
Artistic approach
By using Korean alphabets as a symbol to restore communication, I would like to share an endless narration and expand a core theme - alluding to inner struggles. The compositions of my work I develop are like phrases or lines of a poem constructed from images from my subconscious, excavated through the meditative process of doodling. Through these symbolic forms, the Korean alphabet, I want to create a surreal landscape to evade negative feelings and my frustration that comes from conditions of emotional displacement.
As my hand drawings with Korean alphabets slip into other contexts or into other mediums, I would like to share my experiences of connection and disconnection that I have been developing. Creating visual work makes me able to fulfil the missing part of my immigrant life. The use of multiple mediums and forms (pen drawings, digital prints, ceramic sculptures, motion graphics) suggests a translation and slippage between expression and meaning. I use visual symbolism and intuitively-generated drawing compositions.
I aim to generate dialogue between the forms while maintaining the narrative possibilities that originate from my hand drawings, conveying this transformation of language that is received and brought through a process into meaning and comprehension.
By using Korean alphabets as a symbol to restore communication, I would like to share an endless narration and expand a core theme - alluding to inner struggles. The compositions of my work I develop are like phrases or lines of a poem constructed from images from my subconscious, excavated through the meditative process of doodling. Through these symbolic forms, the Korean alphabet, I want to create a surreal landscape to evade negative feelings and my frustration that comes from conditions of emotional displacement.
As my hand drawings with Korean alphabets slip into other contexts or into other mediums, I would like to share my experiences of connection and disconnection that I have been developing. Creating visual work makes me able to fulfil the missing part of my immigrant life. The use of multiple mediums and forms (pen drawings, digital prints, ceramic sculptures, motion graphics) suggests a translation and slippage between expression and meaning. I use visual symbolism and intuitively-generated drawing compositions.
I aim to generate dialogue between the forms while maintaining the narrative possibilities that originate from my hand drawings, conveying this transformation of language that is received and brought through a process into meaning and comprehension.
CV is available upon request
Email: Jongwook Park
Email: Jongwook Park