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Jungeun Annie Yang

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It is important for me to paint everyday scenes. I do printmaking, drawing, and painting, I draw mostly representative with some abstraction. Formalistically, I’m thinking about light, construction, composition, color and nature. The relationship between the objects in paintings is like Aphrodite, when I see with love and care, I will then be led to what’s really “fine” in fine art.

Have used lines to depict the space, with the recognition to the cylindrical shapes. I painted my friend Eric and his friend. I have gratitude in life so I depict still life as metaphor to that and also everyday life.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Under Tree, 2021. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 30 x 40 inches.

Life for me has been like a miracle. I have thankfulness in life. I know there are a lot of genres in art. I wonder what’s the point of being an artist when there’s no knowledge of true nature/essence – 본질 – that brings love and intimacy in a painting. It is important for me to paint everyday scenes. For me to paint everyday scenes is like I am recording a thank you note to the stars. I have several series of paintings and prints. The composition for me is a natural thing to do in my paintings. I mainly look at the first shape which is the generalized and big forms. Then I think about colors. As I construct, I put paint on to the canvas. All drawing and painting depends on first composing, then lighting, and then colors.

I usually do composing, lighting, then color. I painted my friend Eric how we learn about art from each other. I like to look at the temperatures of the painting, it goes from warm in the cool on left of the background to warm in the center and then to the cool in the right again.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Poinsettia 1, 2020. Oil on canvas. 11 x 14 inches.

Following three are a similar approach to Poinsettia 1. However I focused more on the form of the head and how it sits right top of the neck. I also focused on the body how the left hits the light part and right is darker since the light is from left to right.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Poinsettia 2, 2021. Oil on canvas. 11 x 14 inches.

I painted this more flat but I like looking at the color combinations. The colors start from purple and yellow how they are complementary to each other, to green in the middle, then to a cool red on the right/warm red as orange on the left side plant. My friend Eric is shown frequently in my paintings. He and I like to talk about these in our private meeting time.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Poinsettia 3, 2021. Oil on canvas. 11 x 14 inches.

This piece is wonderful yet a little wonky. However I enjoy the wonkiness. The pants in this piece are very there, it works as I think about how the leg forms. The leg goes around, and it receives light as the form of the legs sit still on the chair.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Poinsettia 4, 2021. Oil on canvas. 11 x 14 inches.

This work was very intuitive and I like to focus on the brushwork. The brushwork in the background has temperature. It goes from very cool in the center and warmest in the right then slightly cooler on the left.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Tulip 1, 2020.
Oil on canvas. 9 x 12 inches.

This piece is a similar approach. I like to look at the brushwork, and also in this work particular, at the pencil lines.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Tulip 2, 2020.
Oil on canvas. 9 x 12 inches.

I painted this with myself asking to my spirit, how can I depict myself in a formally good way, in a way that there is presence in the shapes not just only flat? Having that in mind, I worked on this piece mainly on the focus of face. The face sits as the neck has the perfect light. The hair functions as hair in this painting, it’s not just linear nor flat. I put eyes, nose, mouth and lips in order.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Almost Christmas Green, 2020. Oil on canvas. 14 x 11 inches.

This is another approach that goes which Almost Christmas Green.

Jungeun Annie Yang, Almost Christmas Red Revised, 2020. Oil on canvas. 14 x 11 inches.

The first snow hit last year and I was in the apartment building. Even though there was a blizzard, I felt warm since I have a home to stay inside and also I was in NYC, the heart of the art world.

Jungeun Annie Yang, First Blizzard, 2020. Oil on canvas. 14 x 11 inches.

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