VIEW IN MY ROOM
Clipping a Thumbnail Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 18 H x 1 D in
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About The Artwork
This is the first one of my "Hands & Feet" work. My "Hands and Feet" series on newspaper was motivated by an article on June 16, 2006. It was about Bill Gates’ plans to leave Microsoft. This article impressed me because it showed how Bill Gates had decided to turn his attention to philanthropy, and away from Microsoft, one of the biggest and richest companies in the world. This almost never seems to happen in Korea, where the heads of corporations frequently utilize foundations as a way of transferring management powers and wealth to their sons and daughters. After reading this article, I had difficulty sleeping that night... I reflected that focusing on my portraiture was not challenging enough, in the sense that I was only focusing my talents on pleasing myself. So I moved towards my new "Hands & Feet" work in order to express my opinion and spread awareness about some abuses in our current society. As I looked through many newspaper articles for my artwork, I realized even more that I had been so ignorant about many unfortunate and horrible events around the world, such as wars, disasters, crimes and corruption.
Original Created:2006
Subjects:Portrait
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 18 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Born in South Korea, I came to the U.S. in 1995. I received 33 awards in painting, including the 2024 and 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the 2018 Spring Residency Program of the ESKFF at Mana Contemporary, the Best of Show & Award of Merit of 2004 from the Heartland Exhibition of the City of Merriam in Kansas, and the Len G. Everett Memorial Award for the Advancement of American Art from Allied Artists of America in 2002 & 2008. In 2003, while traveling with a Xavier Gonzalez & Edwards grant from the Art Students League of NY, I joined the Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona, Spain. My art has been shown at selected and invited exhibitions, mostly in public spaces, in over 120 groups, eight solo, and 2 two-person exhibitions throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea. My work has been featured in over 50 critical articles globally, including "100 Greatest Women Artists of All Time... So Far" by Arthur Smith in 2020 and interviewed by m-u-s-e-u-m.org/shinyoung-an. I was invited to be the figurative artist of New Jersey by "Figure 50" in 2013.
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