- Artist MeeNa Park
Drawings 1998-2012
2012
Installation view
DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present Drawings 1998-2012, a solo exhibition by MeeNa Park from August 30th to September 27th, 2012. On display in the exhibition will be over 300 drawings from the 785 drawings the artist has created in the 15 years of her oeuvre, from 1998 to present in 2012.
MeeNa Park endlessly questions and challenges the essence of painting, expanding the territory of painting by exploring new ways of reading rather than traditional ways of representation. Park has established and expresses her own color system by collecting and researching colors, and strives to change the existing way of thinking through her paintings that play with ‘anagrams’, which creates new words by changing spellings, or with special computer font type called ‘dingbat’. The works in this exhibition are unique drawings that use children’s coloring pages, which is a learning tool with its own set rules and system. Park refuses to follow the commands given in the drawing pages, and goes on to transform them into paintings with her own system of subtlety, by overlapping the images, putting on stickers, and coloring with exaggerated colors. This exhibition provides the opportunity to meditate on over 300 of Park’s drawing series created from her early art practice until today.
MeeNa Park (b. 1973) received a B.F.A in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, U.S.A and a M.F.A. in Painting from Hunter College in New York, NY, U.S.A. She has had solo exhibitions at DOOSAN Gallery New York (2012, New York, NY, U.S.A), Gallery em (2011, Seoul, Korea), Kukje Gallery, (2010, Seoul, Korea), and Project Space Sarubia Dabang (2007, Seoul, Korea). Her works has also been included in group exhibitions at Gwangju Design Biennale 2011 (2011, Gwangju, Korea), PLATEAU (2011, Seoul, Korea), art space pool (2010, Seoul, Korea), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (2010, Ansan, Korea), Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (2009, Kagawa, Japan), The Heder Contemporary Art Gallery (2009, Tel-Aviv, Israel), Atelier Hermes (2009, Seoul, Korea), and Nam June Paik Art Center (2008, Yongin, Korea). MeeNa Park is one of recipients of the first DOOSAN Yonkang Artist Award in 2010.