Kukje Gallery is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition of Kyung Jeon and Eemyun Kang. Known for their unique idiosyncratic approach to painting, the artists are widely celebrated for playing with symbolic vocabularies and formal approaches to painting. 

Based in the US, Kyung Jeon's (b.1975) work is founded on the artis's keen interest in creating psychological narratives, many of which directly referece her experiences growing up as a first generation Korean American. For her exhibition at Kukje, Jeon exhibits a new series of mural-sized works titled Waterlilies. The works in this series engage the artist's on-going exploration of storytelling by a means of filling-in, reinventing, and re-sorting gaps in history. Jeon also exhibits a selection of smaller vignettes which frame an isolated story, depicting a world defined by a complex interweave of childhood memories such as fear, trauma, and conflicts as well as grown-up experiences, such as emotional maturity and wisdom.

Eemyung Kang (b.1981) lives and works in London. Receiving attention since her studies at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Kang has developed a recognizable style that explores core themes of nature and the myth of metamorphosis. For the exhibition at Kukje Gallery, Kang takes the changing seasons as a central motif. Inaddition she has combined a disparate group of literary souces as inspiration including Alaskan Inuit myths, a poem A year of thinking / thinking of a year by artist and writer Fabian Peake, written in response to and inspired by Kang's paintings, and the Biblical story of Jonah and the whale. These theree sources for the basis for the narratives contained in Kang's new paintings.