Jinie Park | Windows

November 4 - December 31, 2021

Exhibition Tour: Jinie Park & MK Guth
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Thursday, November 4, 2021, 6:00 PM PDT

Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Windows, new abstract works by Jinie Park that combine painting and sculpture, and feature radiant color washes on cut-out canvases.

These works continue Park's formal and material explorations by exposing stretcher bars through square-shaped open areas of her stitched together muslin, cheesecloth and linen canvases. The painting surface’s deeply rich jewel tones and bright, pastel hues lyrically spill together at the edges to create soft geometric formations.

Inspired by the observations of interior spaces and the seasonally shifting sunlight experienced from inside one’s home, this series of paintings visually transport the viewer. Portals and windows appear and invite wanderlust, daydreams and meditations on the present moment.

Jinie Park creates ethereal works on canvas with thinly layered, translucent washes of paint. Through her abstraction she investigates and engages with the history and conventions of painting, applying paint on all sides of her canvas. Park received a BFA in painting at Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea) and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD). Her work has been shown at the Kimsechonng Museum (Seoul, South Korea), the Louisiana Biennial Juried Exhibition, School of Design at Louisiana Tech University (Ruston, LA) and in a juried exhibition at Weiser Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA). Park was awarded an Individual Artist Award in Painting from the Maryland State Art Council, the Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship and the LeRoy E. Hoffberger Scholarship from the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2016 Park received the Perez Art Museum Miami Picks Award during PULSE Miami Beach. Elizabeth Leach Gallery published a catalogue of her work in 2018.