COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
A Dream of Icons and Grids
Creator:
Hyun, Jong-kwang
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Painting
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Painting
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"This thesis investigates my re-contextualization of remnants of Western iconic commodities within my memories and myths of childhood in South Korea. In my paintings, I employ grids as ritualistic reliquary, a metaphorical window, and mental fragmentation in repetition. The hybridization of an icon and a grid materializes as a landscape of my mind. My practice of painting reflects a view of metaphysical emptiness and perceptual reductiveness akin to Korean (Eastern) monochrome painting 'Dansaekwha' and Western Minimalism in late-modernist art."
Abstract:
Keywords: childhood, remnants, myths, re-contextualization, a window, hybridization, monochrome painting (Dansaekwha)
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2017-05
Format:
PDF : 27 pages, illustrations (chiefly color)