Jinie Park | Windows | Viewing Room

Oct 26

Jinie Park, Rainbow, 2021, acrylic on sewn Kwangmok (Korean muslin), cheesecloth and wooden frame, 73 x 73"
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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.

Jinie Park, Weeping Willow, 2021, acrylic on sewn Kwangmok (Korean muslin),
cheesecloth and wooden frame, 36.5 x 36.5"
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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.

Jinie Park, Light Evening, 2021, acrylic on sewn Kwangmok (Korean muslin), cheesecloth and wooden frame, 36.5 x 36.5"
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 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, Autumn Light, 2021, acrylic on sewn Kwangmok (Korean muslin),
cheesecloth and wooden frame, 73 x 36.5"
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Jinie Park, Creek, 2021, acrylic on sewn Kwangmok (Korean muslin),
cheesecloth and wooden frame, 73 x 36.5"
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Jinie Park, Barbershop, 2021, acrylic on sewn Kwangmok (Korean muslin),
cheesecloth and wooden frame, 36.5 x 36.5"
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Using layers of bold and transparent color combined with hand-stitched patchwork of linen, canvas, muslin, organza, and passages of hand-woven fiber, Park’s assembled paintings explore materiality and are visually evocative and exquisitely lush.

– VIA TEXTILE XCHANGE, 2019

ARTIST’S NOTES: WINDOWS

Window from Park’s home. Image provided by the artist.

I spent a lot of time inside of my apartment last year. I started focusing on the color of the wooden floor, cracks on the wall, multi layered painted trims in the room and shapes of furniture. The only opening towards the outer environment of the apartment were windows. The windows allowed light that continuously change throughout the day and night, including seasonal changes. My friend talked to me about the color of the lights often. He told me that very specific times of the month have their own particular color of light. I started noticing it too.

As I worked on the series of the paintings, I eventually wanted the tone of the wooden stretcher to blend into a room like home furniture. I stained and oiled the stretcher. I then sewed fabric to fit over the stretcher like a curtain or clothing that hides and reveals the contents under it. I didn’t want the painting to be a screen. I wanted it be a window.

– JINIE PARK, 2021

Jinie Park, Saturn Night, 2021, acrylic on sewn Kwangmok (Korean muslin), cheesecloth and wooden frame, 75 x 75"
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ARTIST CATALOG

Park's stated artistic preoccupations lie in the formal manifestations of liminality–the inbetween. Her works represent echoing dichotomies of surface and structure, center and margin, matter and essence. Park's focus is cerebral, and yet, her distinctive abstract language is familiar enough to warrant easy access, as her works frequently evoke landscapes and views seen through windows–or rather, the transient impressions of such views.