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Choi Soo Jung Korea, b. 1977

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Overview Choi Soo Jung attempts to experiment the conditions of traditional painting and seek pictorial ways to break limits beyond the canvas. She has been working to explore the memory and narrative that could be seen beyond the surface through the painting, which is a physical image on the surface, and between painting and space, and the image that activates in narratives.Choi focuses on the physicality of creating and revealing images, and comprehensively explores the physical distance and psychological distance between the artist and the painting, and the distance that occurs in the relationship between the work and the audience. By applying tactile effects using sewing thread to the surface of a painting where working time is physically accumulated, the artist reveals images and spaces beyond the limits of the surface. In her recent works, Choi took a new approach on the scenery re-encoded on the basis of the RGB color mechanism. It still has the appearance of the original image while it is seen as three-dimensional causing an optical illusion in which the outlines are smudged. Applying her unique expression, Choi gradually extends the distance between the observed object and the flat canvas. She focuses on the senses and states of her mind while painting, and the essence of the painting she perceives. Her brush strokes create a volume over the surface of the canvas and bring a formative order and rhythm implying light beyond the canvas. Choi Soo Jung lives and works in Seoul, Korea. She received a BFA from Hongik University in Korea and MFA at Seoul National University in Korea and Glasgow School of Art in UK. She has held solo exhibitions at BOAN1942 (2019), Amado Art Space (2015), Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2010), Insa Art Space (2007). She participated in group exhibitions at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2024, 2015), Seoul Museum of Art (2018, 2014), Gwangju Museum of Art (2014), Sehwa Museum of Art (2020), Seoul National University Museum of Art (2020, 2015), HITE Collection (2017) in Korea. She was selected as The 11th Chongkundang Yesuljisang in 2024. Her works are included in the collections of Seoul National University Museum of Art, Moran Museum of Art in Korea. Download CV (KR) (PDF, opens in a new tab.) Download CV (EN) (PDF, opens in a new tab.) Works

• Choi Soo JungRefraction, 2021
• Choi Soo Jungsquare_biːt 01, 2023
• Choi Soo Jungrefractionreflection, 2024
• Choi Soo Jungrefractionreflection, 2024
• Choi Soo Jungrefractionreflection_theater, 2024
• Choi Soo Jungsquare_biːt 02, 2023
• Choi Soo JungMadison County X, 2023
• Choi Soo Jungsquare_biːt 01, 2023
• Choi Soo JungRefraction, 2022
• Choi Soo JungRothko Theater, 2023
• Choi Soo JungRefraction, 2022
• Choi Soo JungPortrait Landscape, 2020
• Choi Soo JungNausea, 2021
• Choi Soo JungPaintingCavePainting, 2018
• Choi Soo Jungsquare_biːt 04, 2023

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  The Flexible Boundaries

  Bae YoonHwan, Rho EunJoo, Kang CheolGyu, Lee UeSung, Rhee ChaeEun, Choi SooJung 12 January - 12 February 2022 Gallery Baton is pleased to announce "The Flexible Boundaries", a group exhibition of works by 6 Korean artists, from 12th January to 12th February 2022 in Hannam-dong, Seoul. This exhibition has an omnibus structure presenting each result of challenging, accepting and breaking limits by the six artists, Bae YoonHwan, Rho EunJoo, Kang CheolGyu, Lee UeSung, Rhee ChaeEun and Choi SooJung. What the audience could enjoy in the exhibition is a rhizomatic harmony achieved by different approaches; an extension and modification of fundamental limitations and properties of specific media (Choi SooJung, Lee UeSung); an investigation into possibilities of coexistence between fine art and particular messages (Bae YoonHwan, Kang CheolGyu, Rhee ChaeEun); a new alternative of painting’s performative procedures (Rho EunJoo). Read more

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