Cultivating Corea III

Jeong HyunSook | Jung YoungMO | Kang ShinDuk | Kim GyeHwan | Koo ChaSoong | Lim HyunJU

August 03 - September 13, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, August 03, 3-6 PM

Scott&Jae Gallery of Beverly Hills is pleased to present Cultivating Corea III, a group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s third anniversary. This show which features six artists from Korea and reaffirms Scott&Jae’s commitment to showcasing exciting new currents in Korean art.

Cultivating Corea III invites six Korean artists to engage with the question, “what is the role of representational art?” 

For three of the artists, the answer lies in the evocative qualities of mimesis. To that end, Jung Youngmo’s richly textured pointillistic paintings of colorful landscapes and playful animals seek to capture the bittersweet nostalgia for the innocence of childhood. Similarly, Lim HyunJoo’s storybook-like works featuring whimsical pastel-toned houses explore the notion of home and the warm feelings of comfort and safety it elicits. While Jung and Lim’s works are connotative, with the emotional impact of their art reliant on the sentimental associations attached to the subject depicted, the gauzy atmospheric paintings of Kim GyeHwan are more directly affective; his neo-impressionistic landscapes and still-lifes eschew semiotics and instead seek to recreate the sensory impressions of nature. 

Chun Kwang Young, Aggregation 22-AP097, Mixed media with hanji paper, 2022