SON BONG CHAE

A pioneer of the 3D painting genre, Son Bong Chae was born in Hwasun County, South Korea in 1967. He received his BFA from Chosun University in Gwangju, and his MFA from the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York, USA.

Son employs a layered painting process to create ethereal landscapes reminiscent of traditional Korean landscape painting. Each work is painted in oil paint onto multiple layers of polycarbonate, a special type of bulletproof glass 300 times stronger than acrylic glass. Illuminated by a luminescent diode, a type of lighting similar to a LED, these landscapes evoke both the memory of traditional painting and the timelessness of the scene.

HAHN JEESUN

Hahn Jeesun earned her BFA from Hongik Univerity in South Korea and her MFA from the University of Utah in the US. So far, she has 20 individual exhibitions and many group exhibitions in South Korea and other countries.

Hahn Jeesun is versatile with architectural images of multiple perspectives as well as floating objects in diverse shapes and looks. These are accented in her acrylic paintings with three-dimensional surfaces on plywood, symbolizing people, society, and relationships that interact together. Some of them represent the perceptions that should be abandoned in order to reach the ideal state. Her works are about our environment that is breaking down and our efforts to recover from it.