Artwork by Kyung Jeon titled Urban Jungle Gym Storm Clouds, 2019
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Artwork by Kyung Jeon titled Waterlilies Whirlpool, 2012
EXHIBITION CATALOG ESSAY: KYUNG JEON: WATERLILIES

Essay by Jeesun Park
 
Waterlilies consists of a series of ambitious new work by Kyung Jeon. The exhibition includes a mural-sized triptych as well as smaller vignettes each of which explores diverse narratives. The artist's stories are animated by both fact and fiction, real life and fantastical stories from the past and present, as well as Jeon's personal biography as a first generation Korean American, all of which are brought together into a whimsical fairytale.

Kyung Jeon (b. 1975) work draws on influences as diverse as children's fairy tales, traditional Korean genre paintings, and modern canonical paintings. Her playful and often dark stories are based on a combination of personal and historical references that upturn static themes of...READ MORE

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