Exhibition view of Jung Ouk Hong’s solo exhibition "ENTITY" at OBSCURA, Seoul. (October 28, 2022 - November 20, 2022). © OBSCURA.OBSCURA, located in Seongbuk-dong, Seoul, is showcasing around twenty new works by Jung Ouk Hong (b. 1976) under the title ENTITY. Hong’s works expand the painting’s basic form and structure in three dimensions. In ENTITY, Hong has experimented with various materials to create a more complex structure in the artworks.
Paintings are known to be flat and square and drawn on canvases. Attempting to challenge the inherent nature of painting and subvert its existing form through various experiments, Hong has been working on creating relief-type works using various materials, including wood, wire, and glass, on canvases of various shapes, such as triangles, pentagons, octagons, and circles. Hong also reinterprets painting in a three-dimensional structure that can stand independently away from the wall.
Jung Ouk Hong, 'cacophony,' 2021,Acrylic color and magnet on birch structure, pinewood structure and shaped canvas, 60 x 60 x 60 cm.
Jung Ouk Hong has held over eleven solo exhibitions, including those at Leean Gallery (Seoul, 2019), Kim Chong Yung Museum (Seoul, 2013), and Gallery Lux (Seoul, 2003). Hong has participated in various group exhibitions at home and abroad, such as those at Ilwoo Space (Seoul, 2020), Gyeonggi Museum of Art (Ansan, 2017), OCI Museum of Art (Seoul, 2017), Hanmi Gallery (Seoul, 2015), and Seoul National University Museum of Art (Seoul, 2013). Major awards include the Kim Chong Yung Museum Award (Seoul, 2013), the Guasch Coranty International Painting Prize 2010 (finalist, Barcelona), New Contemporaries 2009 (finalist, London), and the 4th SongEun Art Award (Seoul, 2004).
