As one of selected emerging artists from OCI Museum of Art, Hyun-Ho Lee will exhibit paintings thinking about ordinary life, person, and nature with the theme 'One Day'. Rather than attractive image or landscape, the artist focuses on an ordinary scene. Usually, he expresses a small building or structure in the dense forest with painting on Korean paper. According to persistent research and records, he reads mood, language and rhythm from inside of landscape.

Each work looks similar in terms of motif, forest, and description, but due to a delicate difference of view, independency of them reveal clearly. His representative work 'Streetlamp' is filled with thick and realistic leafy trees on canvas.

Characteristics of Western painting, objective form and perspective, and traditional painting, overlapped mellow colors, can be found together, which shows how much he has concerned about a field and identity of Korean painting. He reminds us of our sensible and careless views, ordinary images, and an essence of dailiness.

*image (left)
Streetlamp, 2013
Painting on Korean paper, 170x300cm
© Hyun-Ho Lee

Courtesy of OCI Museum of Art