Wookyung Jeong

Past, Present, And... (A Positive Energy of Love)

The painting work drawn on the canvas consist of innumerable lines meeting each other as well as the colors overlapped with each other. It may be a plane called 'knitted pattern'.
When seen from afar, it looks like a single color, but when you get closer, you will experience an optical illusion due to the various paints overlaid only to feel an impulse of touching it.
In this series of work processes, I would recall a happy memory, and then, the memory would be projected onto the present time only to heal me.
The image of the knitted pattern would be completed, while imitation and recomposition would be repeated from my own perspective. In this process, my philosophy that "knitting is a positive energy and love" is reflected on the work. I continue to research into it to help the audience viewing my works at the exhibition to expand their emotion.

Energy, it is the source of life for everything alive.
Owing to the energy, new life would be conceived, breathing in mutual relationship with other lives.
Although invisible to our eyes, everything alive and moving gets the energy from the Sun to regenerate itself, releasing it.
Though such a process, we feel that we are alive.

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1990 Graduated, Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea (Bachelor, Industrial Art)

I have maintained a prolific career since 2009, featuring 36 solo exhibitions, over 300 group exhibitions, and 29 participations in domestic and international art fairs. Recent highlights include my Special Exhibition for the 22nd Lee Donghoon Art Award Special Prize at the Daejeon Museum of Art (July 15 – September 7, 2025), reflecting my continuous and vibrant commitment to the arts.