Kwang Suk Park

Kwang Suk Park

Biography

Kwang Suk Park was born April 19, 1963 in Gwang Ju City, South Korea. After taking her MFA at Kyung Hee University she was invited to be a visiting artist at Duke University, and has been painting and exhibiting in North Carolina ever since. Always curious about cultures, she now merges eastern shamanist religious practices, women's issues, and knowledge gained from her time in the United States to make figurative paintings that incorporate both ancient eastern techniques, and modern post-cubist styles.

Artist's Statement

I am an artist who strives to understand the spiritual and religious concepts of both East and West. In 1998, I moved from Kwang Ju, South Korea to the United States in order to be able to research western culture first hand. My main goal is to express and define the relationship between the spiritual and artistic concepts of two different cultures. Recent work depicts female's existence within the realms of spirituality and art. Combining experiences in Eastern and Western cultures has allowed me to take a broad view of art.

In Nature, all things reveal their beauty. The art of my native Korea was formed from a deep love and respect for Nature. By contemplating Nature's forms our traditional painters sought to penetrate and reveal essential creative powers.

For me, Nature's most beautiful expression is the form of a woman. I think the beauty of Women is the last work of art formed by the hands of God. Expressing the essential power of that beauty is a complex process. Deeply entwined in the forms of female anatomy are the inner forces that enliven them -- our most primitive and sensitive desires, emotions, the meaning of love, and the spirituality of beauty.

I use traditional Korean materials: ink and watercolor pigments, rice paper and brushes, with traditional techniques. My work brings out the special effects of Chinese ink and powdered pigment spreading on Korean rice paper. This allows a blend of the traditions of my native culture and my own inspiration which is expressed in abstract transformations of the human form. Like my predecessors, I have tried, by contemplating the forms of natural beauty, to reveal and delight in their essence.

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Kwang Suk Park

4404 Cedar Pass Chapel Hill NC 27514 Ph: 919.210.1707 kwangsukpark@aol.com www.stuberpark.com

Education: 2000-01: NC State University Visiting Artist

1998-99: Duke University Visiting Artist

1997: MFA Fine Art, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

1985: BFA Fine Art, Chosun University, Gwang Ju, South Korea

Solo Exhibits:

2008: Side Street Gallery, Pittsboro NC

2007: Prima Center, Berlin, Germany

2006: Gallery Theatre, Ahoskie, NC

2006: VisionQuest, Inc., Morrisville NC

2006: Trial Lawyers Building, Raleigh, NC

2006: UNC Student Union Gallery, Chapel Hill NC

2005: Chapel Hill Public Art Commission

2005: NCIDEA, Durham, NC

2005: Durham Art Guild, Durham

2005: Schuller, Ferris, Lindstrom, Fayetteville NC

2002-2006: Sizl Gallery, Carrboro NC

2002: Four From Around the World, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh NC

1999: Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh NC

1995: Jong Lo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1994: Dong Ju Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Group Exhibits:

2008: National Museum of Art, Skopje, Macedonia

2008: Colony Exhibition, Kicevo, Macedonia

2006: Degas Gallery, "Seven Artists," McLean, VA

2006: Picture This, Juried Exhibit, Exploris Museum, Raleigh, NC

2005: Pharmalink, FHI, Durham, NC

2005: Cedar Park Artist Colony, at Sidestreet Gallery, Pittsboro NC

2005: Sea Frolic International Artist Colony Boca Raton, FL

2005: Realis Gallery, Winston Salem NC

2004: Sea Frolic International Artist Colony, Boca Raton, FL

2004: Fayetteville Art Council Annual Juried Show

2004: Korean Embassy, Washington, DC

2003: Washington Korean Art Center, Vienna, VA

1999-2003: Many Group Exhibits in North Carolina

1983-1997: Many Group Exhibits throughout South Korea

Publications:

Art World Magazine, 1995; Durham Herald Sun, 1999; Raleigh News & Observer, 1999-02; Fayetteville Observer, 2004; The (UNC) Daily Tarheel, 2006; Gwangju News, 2008.

Levavi Oculus 58 x 42 2005 $2500

Shaman's Blessing 58 x 40 2005 $2500

Acceptance 60 x 48 2005 $3000

Birthing Rituual 60 x 48 2005 $3000

Confession 60.5 x 48 2005 $3000

Fertility Prayer 48 x 39.5 2005 $2000

Fertility Song 60 x 48 2005 $3000

Nostalgia 48 x 40 2005 $2000

Sisterhood 48 x 40 2005 $2000

Soloist 48 x 48 2004 $2500

Spring Song 48 x 36 2005 $2000

Together 69 x 48 2005 $3200