Artist Statement

My work fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and intellectual forms by drawing with cut paper, shaping and layering positive and negative space into rhythms.  The paper is meticulously cut and composed, opened and closed, with a focus on creating lines that specify coherent patterns of light and shadows on a grid, forming a visual musical structure. In essence, the paper itself becomes the instrument that draws light into visual musical patterns. 

Each piece, which is part of the individual work, is a component, much like a movement, that comprises a larger integrated work with the theme of the ambient statement. Sound, light and physical process, whether subjective or objective, through inference, are all interrelated and consistent within this statement. I combine my paper work with the sound and structure of music. 

My art is that of an independent self-conscious, self-constructing novel patterns within the constraints of predetermined boundaries of time and nature. Through space, time, sound and life itself, I express and represent the intervals that define my being.  Music is taken for inspiration, as manifest of the continuous river which bridges the layers of emotional, intellectual, physical and metaphysical. 

I use music as my inspiration. I translate sound into linear patterns that can be interpreted as either a visual image in terms of a language to be deciphered and read. Listening to music, I feel a space that flows like a river. This space is a real physical space. It is an abstract and metaphysical realm for me. Music, by evoking that abstract space, inspires me to create new spaces through my art. A visual sound of a diagram is related to a heartbeat with a feeling in my music drawings. 

Artist Bio

I use music as my inspiration, I translate sound into linear patterns that can be interpreted as either a visual image in terms of a language to be deciphered and read. My art work fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and intellectual forms by drawing with cut paper, shaping and layering positive and negative space into rhythms. In essence, the paper itself becomes the instrument that draws light into visual musical patterns. 

I was born in Korea and educated at Hong ik University, sculpture, 1980 and I received an MFA, painting from Pratt Institute, 2000, New York. I have been working as a visual artist for more than 25 years and have continued to develop my concept of relating concrete forms to music. I have had numerous one woman solo shows and group shows over last twenty five years, Bronx river art center and Queens Museum of Art, New York and International Art Museum in Poland, National Museum Contemporary of Art, Seoul, The international Paper Art Biennial, Sofia, Islip Art Museum, New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Greece. I received, the Pollock-Krasner Grant, Fellowship- Art Omi,The  Edward F. Albee Foundation. My Article and review on White Hot Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail. 

I live and work in New York.