Venue: Seoul Art Foundation

"Off-Scene" is Julie Insun Youn's fourth solo show of this year since "Hapax", "Re-Surrection" and "Invented Epiphany". 

Julie Insun Youn received her PhD in Fine Art from Hongik University. She also earned her master’s degree in Studio Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2007, Julie launched her career as a painter with "Home Alone" and "Yawn: In Sight, But Out of Mind". "Studies on Presence (2010)", "Poetics of the Nameless (2011)" were her visualization of superimposing absence upon presence, and epiphany onto banality. "Fleeting Names (2013)", the collaboration with Futurist poet Jangwook Lee inspired her to the concept of “post-painting”, and eventually she created computer graphics and installation for "Shrouded in Clouds: An Essay on Origin and Abyss (2015)". In 2016, she presented "Miracle, Telepathy, Leftovers" at Incheon Art Platform, "Out of the Blue" at Cheongju Art Studio, and subsequently received the first prize from the annual Portfolio Fair at Seoul Art Foundation. 

The stripe in her work operates as veil which inscribes unfamiliarity into the familiar world. unknown into the frame of banality. It situates anonymous scene of non-meaning in its endless repetition and superimposition. 

"Off-Scene" is also about unblocking the ontology of painting as well as unmasking the abyssal gesture existing in painting’s process. "Geometric Stupidity", "Supravisible Worship", and "Names of Salvation" are made of glass, oakwood, and stainless steel to set a flexible scene of layers in a space. "Appearing Painting", "Studies on Origin", and "Studies on Abyss" are experimental digital-drawings which have evolved into "Arriving Answers", "Useless Flashback", and "Flat Grace". They all speak of the abyssal origin as the only truth of dead painting, and of the painting itself as an art of glory.

Seoul Art Foundation is located in Gwanghwamun area, behind Seoul Museum of History, and next to Sungkok Art Museum. The exhibition is opened from 10 am to 6 pm daily through September 28, 2017.

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