PARK JiHye

In her paintings, a woman always takes the central position. When a figure appears, we are likely to look through the face first. But for the artist always show the women from the back, that typical seeing process is to be frustrated. It is at the very moment that the minute and delicate details which attracted the artist’s eyes such as the shapes of the muscles and bones in the subtle movement of the bodies, and the floral patterns or lace patterns on the clothes catch our eyes and become the real central motives of the paintings. The reason the artist always draws women from the back might be that she is much more impressed by the bodies, by the countenances made by the delicate movements of the sensitive muscles and bones, and by the sentiments in them rather than those of the faces. Thin bodies are naturally preferable. The tensive lines of the neck bones, the back bones, and the muscles are the emotional lines.
In this way, the interest of the subject and the sentiments of the objects are implicated in the Regards of Park Ji-hye. And dynamic interactions between the subject who is considered to see but in fact is to be seen and the objects which are thought to be seen but in fact show take place. “What I try to express is not a paused moment of the eyes, but the field of actions and reactions of the gaze and the eyes.” Her paintings are the crossing point of the gaze and the eyes.
Chung Sukyung (Aesthetics, Art Theory)

PARK JiHye
Born in    1983, Gyeonggi, Korea

EDUCATION
2009    M.F.A, Graduate School of Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2006    B.F.A, Department of Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
    
    
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2011    2nd.-Moving things, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2007    1st.-Regard, Noam Gallery, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2014    2014 Young Revolution, ION Art Gallery, Singapore
2013    Silhouette, GalleryLVS, Seoul, Korea
2011    What kind of ‘real’?, Albemarle Gallery, London
             The Seoul Art Exhibition 2011-Hyperrealism, Seoul Museum of Art,
             Seoul, Korea
2010    Paintings ; now, things that are expressed, Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2009    The 1st Annual Goyang Cultural Foundation Emerging Artists’ Awards
             – Sight Beyond the New, Oulim Art Gallery, Goyang, Korea
             Another Daily Life – The Past and Today of Hyperrealism, Sungnam Art
             Center, Sungnam, Korea
             Seogyo Sixty 2009 : The Game for Respect, Gallery Sangsangmadang,
             Seoul, Korea
2008    Retrospective 2007 – Korean Young Painters, Doosan Gallery,
             Seoul, Korea
2006    P & P, Gallery Zandari, Seoul, Korea