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Sun Young Byun
Optical Adventure The works by Sun Young Byun prove that painting can hold its own against interior design prove. The Korean artist playfully mixes Asian and European patterns, confusing our typical orientation and thus readying us for an optical adventure. This journey flowers out of an overflow of styles: a calendar with Pop Art… Read more
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Background Information about Sun Young Byun
Introduction
Optical Adventure
The works by Sun Young Byun prove that painting can hold its own against interior design prove. The Korean artist playfully mixes Asian and European patterns, confusing our typical orientation and thus readying us for an optical adventure. This journey flowers out of an overflow of styles: a calendar with Pop Art images by Roy Lichtenstein on a violet and pink flowered wallpaper, next to that a chair upholstered in budding blooms. A small table with grandmother’s white crocheted tablecloth bedecked with family photos, the characters in which Byon reveals only as white cut-out silhouettes. Of all things, the houseplants also remain white and look as they have been cut from the picture; these are empty spaces among the room’s opulent ornamentation.
As early as her painting studies, Sun Young Byun distanced herself from traditional motifs such as still lifes to search instead for everyday objects for her images that did not necessarily need to be carefully arranged. The more she tried to unjudgmentally combine opposites such as art and the everyday, luxury items and kitsch, the more experimental her selections and her way of dealing with the objects became. She began to turn an entire system of values on its head.
In her current works she plays with unusual perspectives of interior spaces. She conjures furniture, wallpapers, objects like vases and wall calendars, carpets, and doors into a mutual two-dimensional existence on the canvas. No perspectival sight lines or constructed back- and foreground divide or organize the colorful objects. Following the ideals of French legend Matisse, colorful effects and surface patterns weave themselves into a spectacular visual quilt. The perspectival illusion disappears because the artist dispenses with sharp dividers, constructed vanishing lines, and framing shadows, flooding the eye with decoration.
Idealism and reality, dream and everyday life begin to overlap in these unusual images. Sun Young Byun masterfully conducts the most varied traditions, cultures, and styles in a harmonious composition, an aesthetic challenge with new symbolic power.
Christina Wendenburg
The works by Sun Young Byun prove that painting can hold its own against interior design prove. The Korean artist playfully mixes Asian and European patterns, confusing our typical orientation and thus readying us for an optical adventure. This journey flowers out of an overflow of styles: a calendar with Pop Art images by Roy Lichtenstein on a violet and pink flowered wallpaper, next to that a chair upholstered in budding blooms. A small table with grandmother’s white crocheted tablecloth bedecked with family photos, the characters in which Byon reveals only as white cut-out silhouettes. Of all things, the houseplants also remain white and look as they have been cut from the picture; these are empty spaces among the room’s opulent ornamentation.
As early as her painting studies, Sun Young Byun distanced herself from traditional motifs such as still lifes to search instead for everyday objects for her images that did not necessarily need to be carefully arranged. The more she tried to unjudgmentally combine opposites such as art and the everyday, luxury items and kitsch, the more experimental her selections and her way of dealing with the objects became. She began to turn an entire system of values on its head.
In her current works she plays with unusual perspectives of interior spaces. She conjures furniture, wallpapers, objects like vases and wall calendars, carpets, and doors into a mutual two-dimensional existence on the canvas. No perspectival sight lines or constructed back- and foreground divide or organize the colorful objects. Following the ideals of French legend Matisse, colorful effects and surface patterns weave themselves into a spectacular visual quilt. The perspectival illusion disappears because the artist dispenses with sharp dividers, constructed vanishing lines, and framing shadows, flooding the eye with decoration.
Idealism and reality, dream and everyday life begin to overlap in these unusual images. Sun Young Byun masterfully conducts the most varied traditions, cultures, and styles in a harmonious composition, an aesthetic challenge with new symbolic power.
Christina Wendenburg
Bio
| 1967 | born in Seoul, South Korea |
| 1986 | Seoul Art High School, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1991 | BFA, Hong-Ik University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1994 | MFA, Hong-Ik University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1996 | teaching assistant, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
| 1997 | MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
| 1997-1999 | professor, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA |
| 2001-2003 | instructor, Seoul Women’s University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2001 | instructor, Hong-Ik University, Printmaking Department, Seoul, Südkorea |
| 2000-03 | instructor, Hong-Ik University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2004-06 | Extraordinary Professor, Seoul Women’s University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
| since 2003 | instructor, Dong-Guk University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
| lives and works in Seoul, South Korea |
Awards
| 2007 | MONTBLANC Young Artist World Patronage Competition, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2006-07 | International Artists Studio Program, Changdong, South Korea |
| 1999 | An Open Biennial Competition Organized Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA |
| 1998 | First Coast Regional Art Competition, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA |
| 1997 | Juried Competition, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| 1996 | Twenty-fifth Annual Works on Paper Competition, Cash&Purchase Awards, Northwest Art Center, Minot, North Dakota, USA |
| Special Jury Review Committee Selects, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA | |
| | Annual All Media Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| 1993 | Grand Prize at Art Competition Sponsored MBC Broadcasting Co, Seoul,South Korea |
| | Special Prize at Korean Contemporary Prints Public Subscription, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1992 | Promotion Prize at Art Competition Sponsored MBC Broadcasting Co, Seoul, South Korea |
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
| 2008 | Alexander Ochs Galleries, Beijing, China and Berlin, Germany |
| 2006 | ArtPark, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2004 | Lee Hwa Ik Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2002 | Gallery HYUNDAI, Window Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| | Gallery IHN, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1995 | Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
| 1993 | SaGak Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1992 | Batangol Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
Group Exhibitions
| 2008 | ART FORUM, Berlin,Germany |
| Female Sensibility, Gallery ARTSIDE, Seoul, South Korea | |
| 2007 | Pocheon Asia Biennale 2007, Pocheon, South Korea |
| | Art in philosophy, Sungkok art museum, Seoul, South Korea |
| | Taipei Art Fair, Taipei, Taiwan |
| | Recomposition of Masterpiece, Savina Museum, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2006 | Christmas wish, Sp Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| | Hybrid trend Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2005 | Magic, Art, Cho Sun Press Museum, Seoul, South Korea |
| | Sink into Space, Art Factory, Heiri Kyungkido, Seoul, South Korea |
| | Movement on silence, Gallery DOS, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2004 | Fiction, love - Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan |
| | Exploration of Light & Colors, Seoul Arts center, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2003 | Plastic, Art Park, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2002 | Contemporary Art Fair, Central City Millenium Hall, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1999 | 27th Bradley National Print Drawing Exhibition, Peoria, Illinois, USA |
| 1998 | Group Exhibition, D.M.I, Company, Michigan, USA |
| 1997 | Looking to the Far East, Juried Exhibition, Detroit Focus Market, Michigan, Michigan, USA |
| 1996 | Interdisciplinary Group Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
| 1993 | The 19th Exhibition of Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1991 | Balcony Group Exhibition, Gallery 2000, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1990 | Cupid Group Exhibition, Do-ol Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
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