Spotlight Artist

Yongjae Kim

Northeast
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

 I explore an inexplicable melancholy that floods me daily. My psychological landscape represents mundane surroundings in unsettled and deficient conditions with a toned-down mood. While my painting shows many elaborative details, the atmosphere feels empty. The inner or outer deconstructed states of the subject matter evoke a sense of loss and solitude. In the stillness that creates its own space and time on the canvas, I scumble the subtle shape of undepicted existence in scenery, portraying traces of ephemeral and disappearing presence.

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