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Artist Danym Kwon, of Korean-American origin with roots in the Bay Area of San Francisco, manages to transform everyday life, with its joys but also with all its daily difficulties, into a series of paintings where pastel colours, sinuous and rounded shapes offer that sensory and emotional peace that we all intensely need.
Influenced by images from MTV – particularly recalling the 90s when she was a teenager – and by traditional Korean painting Chaekgado, mainly still lifes centered on books as the dominant subject, she triggers a surreal aura with her acrylic puddles on canvas.
We are struck by those piles of towels, soft sweaters, and hoodies where minimalist landscapes animated by small human figures illustrate the changing of seasons.
So in the series Saturday, a woman and a man embracing can walk along a tree-lined avenue that will take them to the seaside or a flowery field before reaching, refreshing themselves at a set table, their little white house.
They are idyllic landscapes that illuminate and soothe the heart and mind.
“While going through unforeseen difficulties in life, I discovered gratitude and joy for what surrounded me. To cherish and appreciate these moments of life, I want to see them in a new perspective by staging them with flower vases and piles of laundry.”
A minimalism that we find in The Moon and I, in Breeze in a Bowl, in The Place Where The Wind Blows, When The Wind Became a Whisper where vases and bowls transfigure into fairy-tale landscapes like those enchantingly imaginative titles.
Danym Kwon has exhibited her works in many shows including which took place from January 6 to 27 at the new location of Hashimoto Contemporary on Minnesota Street in San Francisco, and her works have been featured in Lone Splendor at Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia. In 2023, Lush at Hashimoto Contemporary in New York, in 2022, Friends and Family and Vessel at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco and LA. She has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Colossal, Creative Boom, and Frankie Magazine.
