Ontology

Virtual Artist-guided Tour: Thursday June 3 at 5 pm
Online Art Hive: Saturday June 26 from 10 am to 11 am

Exhibition (Gallery 1): June 4 to 26, 2021

Showing one’s vulnerability can seem unacceptable to some, but a private sentiment of aloneness is vividly fuming here. This series of work presents the culmination of scenes floating in the artist’s mind, an odd combination of images that portrays his desire for a sense of emotional continuity and psychological belonging. Borrowing the concept of fantasy from Korean folk paintings and graphic novels, Jongwook Park is stimulated by the bold strokes and graphic stillness of these two iconographies as he visualizes his contemplative inner scape, revealing in each piece both his consciousness and subconscious mind. Starting with an ambiguous formation of doodles, the artist continues working until the piece reaches a flat space where there is no gravity. Through these symbolic forms, he explores conditions of emotional displacement and creates a surreal landscape to evade negative feelings. Each work is a fragment of the journey in his dreamscape, his inner world.

South Korea-born Jongwook Park holds an MFA in Communication Design from Sangmyung University (Seoul) and a diploma in Animation Art and Design from LaSalle College (Montreal). Living in a foreign land forced him out of his psychological comfort zone, a disorientation that led him to objectively re-examine the familiar. His artwork draws on traditional art practices while adopting new techniques and is distinguished by his unique treatment of line drawing. His work has been presented in exhibitions and publications in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, as well as South Korea, Japan, and United States.

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