Jin Jeong

Another Gallery LA is pleased to present its inaugural show, Somewhere To Sit by New York-based artist Jin Jeong, her first solo show in Los Angeles. Jin seeks to deliver some senses of gravity and openness, an ability to breathe by creating a linen painting with an abstract space. The response between the use of paints and linen of grayscale gives a distinct sense of a natural color scheme with organic but mysterious, airy, and subtle tones. Jin pays attention to, engaging and communicating with, the actual reactions from the formal elements in the painting itself. She dedicated herself to utilizing the flatness of acrylic paints and the thin layers of translucent colors with the abstract anthropomorphic, slippery forms, and brushstrokes to give a density and conflicting quality when all elements merge in a completed piece. Creating empty and negative space with the raw linen demonstrates the aspects of looseness and reconciliation by responding with colors, textures, brush works, directed in a central focal-point composition. Jin’s paintings show her fundamental purpose–giving breathable moments necessary to deliver immediacy, traces of processes, and natural reactions by portraying a departure. The narrative invites the viewer to find a space where one can feel lived in, rooted from, or in subtle calmness, and some sort of anxiety with the complexities of dual feelings.

The abstract landscape has a palpable weight and directed one-point intended perspective that conveys serenity, ingrained but suffocated at the same time. The varying tones of colors, layers, brushstrokes, broad levels of transparency, and opacity deliver the diverse abstract languages throughout addressing her stream of consciousness. Jin desires her painting to speak about emotions by painting itself rather than giving a boring lecture of nonsense connotations. Thus, her works become an “emotional landscape.” She creates a space that resonates with the feelings of being rooted, settled but still moving and flexible, not too still like we are in nature and see nature. Jin wants to dig deeper into using different paint mediums to materialize various visual elements for creating slow turbulent moments in nature.