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Once I began painting portraits on newspaper articles and had finished several of the pieces depicting hands and feet, I realized they looked more interesting than if the same portraits had been painted on canvas alone. I generally use current news articles that had an impact on me for the "Face" series artwork. 

Until I began my "Face" and "Hands & Feet" series, I considered myself powerless to affect change, being just a simple artist. I felt guilty over my inaction.  I discovered a peaceful face painted over violent or horrific news events can be quite unsettling. Most people are indifferent about many problems affecting our world.  It's a reality of life that I hope to change. 

For example, if you look beyond the placid face of "The U.S. Citizen," the articles behind it involve mass killings by gun violence in America. Surely we can write laws and regulations to greatly reduce such tragedies.

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The U.S Citizen Painting

Shinyoung An

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 36 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in

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Once I began painting portraits on newspaper articles and had finished several of the pieces depicting hands and feet, I realized they looked more interesting than if the same portraits had been painted on canvas alone. I generally use current news articles that had an impact on me for the "Face" se...

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2012

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ShinYoung was born in South Korea and came to the U.S. in 1995. She 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, partnered with the Mid-Atlantic 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, etc. In 2003, while traveling with a Xavier Gonzalez & Edwards grant from the Art Students League of NY, she joined the Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona, Spain. Her art has been shown at selected and invited exhibitions, mostly in public spaces, in over 120 groups, nine solo, and two two-person exhibitions throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea.

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