Alum Minny Lee PJ'08 MFA'16 in the group show mind-scape at the Datz Museum of Art.
Mikyung Kim, Yoonsuk Kim, Minny Lee, Amanda Marchand, Jinwon Yi in mind-scape at the Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea.
A painting (a photograph) is drawn out of a secretive language from the abyss, motivated by emotional resonance. During the painting process, variations occur according to the subject matter, to the artist’s empathy, differences in time, environmental changes, stream of memory are affected, as well as unconsciousness; it awakens emotional cells when facing unexpectedly extreme and delicate situations and events. In such an emotional chord, what brings inspiration to the emotional state of mind is the sublime. The sublime in nature, a place where the sublime originates, holds the light in itself and gives invisible and emotional inspiration; it gives tranquility to the spirit by letting the mind regain balance and equilibrium.
‘mind-scape’ is an exhibition of five women artists who translated their personality of giving in to and accepting the ways of nature onto the plane of this mind-scape. Starting from an extremely personal humanity, Mikyung Kim (painting) transforms things and nature-made phenomena into spiritual colors with her deep aesthetic eyes. Yoonsuk Kim (photography) lets go of her emotions to enter a landscape subsisting of passing moments whether from traveling or daily life; she widens array of objects and subjects. Minny Lee (photography) expresses childhood memories experienced in nature onto her inner window. Through depicting and interacting with night trees in the winter, she reveals how they bear a depth of silence. Receiving her mother’s death, Amanda Marchand (photography) displays her memories and emotions through an illusion of light in the night garden—a place and time that marked the end of each day spent caring for her mother. With the idea of “touching light”, Jinwon Yi (painting) paints nature’s silence and stillness with colors of light.
Sentiments imbued in their works are naturally associated in the ‘mind-scape’ exhibition, in which each possesses a quiet scent of light. For them, this scent carries an invisible spirit and flows with the air, creating an inner wave and amplifying resonance; this then transfers onto each artist’s vision. Visions of five artists are located on the borders between the earth and the surface of the sea, drawing inexistent coordinates and diverging into unknown coordinates; they continue their journey onto different paths of light. These visions are combined harmonically as one scent at Datz Museum, which stays momentarily and slowly permeates onto the mind-scape of the viewers.