Seon Young Kim - Artist Spotlight Solo Art Exhibition

Seon Young Kim is the Traditional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of May 2018. She is a South Korean, New York based figurative artist. Her work evokes a realistic quality that is true to nature. This realism is balanced and enhanced by an abstract background with a modernist color palette. These colors remarkably capture the energy and emotional state of the subject.

Seon Young’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of May 2018. The gallery will promote Seon Young and her work on the Fusion Art website, in Fusion Art’s Artsy.net Gallery, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets. Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Seon Young’s Biography and Artist Statement below as she describes her history and inspiration in her own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see her exhibition.

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Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Seon Young and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Seon Young Kim Biography

Seon Young Kim was born in Teaback, South Korea and currently works and resides in New York. She has studied figure painting with Sharon Sprung at The National Academy and The Art Students League. Her work evokes a realistic quality that is true to nature. This realism is balanced and enhanced by an abstract background with a modernist color palette. These colors also personify the energy and emotional state of the model.

She received her BFA in Fine Art at the Hansung University and a Four-years certificate program at the National Academy. Kim has exhibited in solo exhibitions at 312 Gallery in New York. She has also participated in various group exhibitions in New York, Minnesota and online, including the “Annual Exhibition” at Audubon Artists, the “National Juried Art Show” at Wide Open 4, “Me, Myself and Eye” at Flow Art Space, “Portraits” at Gensler Office and “Alternative Reality” at Space Womb Gallery. Kim was honored with the Beatrice Jackson Award at the Audubon Artists and Honorable Mention at Wide Open 4.

Seon Young Kim Artist Statement

My work speaks about the interpretation of personal connection between the models and myself, expressed through customized layers of color. The colors on the figure evoke a realistic quality that is true to nature. This realism is balanced and enhanced by an abstract background with a modernist color palette. These colors also personify the energy and emotional state of the model. I am inspired by the work of “Sharon Sprung”, which speaks a similar language through, as she describes it, “manipulated layer upon layer in order to create a work of art as equivalent to the complexity of real life as possible.” I create images that resonate with warmth and sensitivity, as well as tranquility that reflect my internal.