Haseullin Jeong

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Haseullin Jeong (b.1994) is a Seoul based artist whose paintings are based on the fundamental interest in the function of paintings between the subject matter and image and works that suggest particular time scales.

Jeong's painting is an outcome of decomposing and recombining a specific subject or found images. The artist chose the process of "transformation" rather than pictorially "representing” the form of references, in order to build a multi-layered image wherein the object is not captured at once. First, the artist uses a tool to remove the colors of the image, leaving just the outline much like a page from a coloring book. Layers are built up with patterns often used in drawing, such as grids, checks and ripples, and then techniques like splattering, dripping and layering are used to create a painterly space with an inner structure of a different texture. Before putting on the next layers, Jeong decides which parts should be exposed and hidden like some type of 'clues', before coating the image with a translucent medium mixed with oil.

In Sprinkle Sauce, Jeong also applies this very technique to her work. Often inspired by culinary experiences from her daily life, the artist hints at the reference to the subject matter of the painting through her title whilst transforming the actual experience and image into her own visual language. Her work conveys that even the simplest experiences are forged through multiple “layers” of senses and these are the core ideas the artist wishes to share with the viewers.

HaSeulLin Jeong's artwork provides the viewer with the experience of pondering for a prolonged period of time, imagining the source of the material, and forming one’s individual visual interpretation.

Reflecting the artist's statement that "painting seems to capture time in the space in between the image and lumps of paint", it doesn't seem to matter as to what the image in the work is read as, or how many layers should be coated on the painting. What's important is the moment before the image comes into a linguistic form and generates meaning, that is, just before the moment the viewer, standing in front of the work, questions what they are looking at and begins to understand what the image expresses. As the viewer looks at the work, the clues that catch their gaze - clear layers and sides of the canvas - make the viewer infer the layers that lie beneath, reveal the time it took to complete the final layer of the work, and the depth of the image completed through the process. Jeong's picture invites the viewer to imagine beyond the point visible to the eye, expanding the possibility of criticism of painting.

She is a graduate of the Korea National University of Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she studied Printmaking and Painting. She has won multiple awards from the Seoul Cultural Foundation and has participated in solo exhibitions in Keep in Touch, Seoul and Rainbow Cube, Seoul. Most Recently, Jeong participated in a group exhibition of 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea held at the Rockefeller Center in New York.