Anna Jung Seo

Project Native Informant presents O Love, How Did You Get Here? by Anna Jung Seo.

Anna Jung Seo is first and foremost a painter of life, both real and imagined. Seo primarily approaches her subjects in one of two ways: painting from observation or from literary sources. Life and its mysteries are abiding questions. Her compositions are always non-photographic, but based on the imprint of memory, and principally, on the act of painting itself. By stressing substance over verisimilitude, Seo allows multiple narratives to inhabit her work simultaneously. Colour and shape fold into environment, dancing amid the density of freely applied oil paint. The resulting paintings often have a sense of sensual wildness, as if Seo is wrestling with the messiness of life. Anything becomes possible: a moment of freedom, a break from the given rules, of a possible surrender.

Each painting is a riddle. Through the process of painting, Seo poses an intimate query and posits a possible answer. In her second solo exhibition at Project Native Informant, titled O love, how did you get here?, Seo revisits the same riddle through a number of paintings made over an extended period of time, asking if time itself changes perspective.