Featured Artist

Suejin Jo

ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings are the product of intuitive navigation between the two worlds of my life; understated delicate lines of the Asian sensibility and assertive corporeal Western one.

I start with the lines. I let the first layer of paint seep under the lines organically. Then I build the muscles and the skin with oil and dry pigment. With a palette knife I knead the dry pigment onto wet oil paint at various drying stages. This is the process of "River of No Return." There is no room for afterthought.

“Return of Echo”

Suejin Jo, 2009

Oil dry pigment on canvas, 36" x 42"

“Picnic at a Hanging Rock”

Suejin Jo, 2009

Oil on Canvas, 54” x 40”

“Pontchartrain”

Suejin Jo, 2005

Oil dry pigment on canvas, 39" x 39"

“Where Rivers Meet”

Suejin Jo, 2003

Oil dry pigment on canvas, 60" x 44"

“Blue Orange Meltdown”

Suejin Jo, 2009

Oil dry pigment on canvas, 60" x 36"

“Azalea Field”

Suejin Jo, 2009

Oil dry pigment on canvas, 12" x 12"

Suejin Jo, Korean-born abstract painter based in New York, studied with Stamos and Vytlacil at the Art Students League. She paints with unique medium of oil and dry pigment which gives a picture surface much like old fresco painting. Helen Harrison of The New York Times described her painting as having “the character of an ancient wall painting”. She exhibited widely in and around New York and in Korea. Her most recent solo show was at the Broome Street Gallery as a result of winning Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Solo Exhibition Award 2008, sponsored by the New York Artists Equity Association. Her work is in many private and public collections including Library of Congress, Chase Manhattan Bank, General Instrument Company, Embassy of San Marino, Sogang University, Ahl Foundation, and Korea Exchange Bank. Her paintings are currently displayed in the US Embassies in two countries, East Timor and Mexico.