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painting the unconscious
Step into a world of memory and sensation with artist, YeonKyung Park
YeonKyung Park paints from a place that exists just beneath the surface. Her works emerge from the unconscious, spontaneous, intuitive, and deeply atmospheric. Rather than following a fixed plan, she removes external barriers and leans into the unknown, allowing her hands to move freely and her inner world to guide the way. The result is a collection of paintings that feel soft, slow, and dreamlike, quietly capturing the everyday sensations we often overlook.
Much of YeonKyung’s creative process happens in moments of stillness. Her Still Life series, for instance, came into being almost by accident. The act of painting happened swiftly, in a moment of flow, led entirely by instinct. It was only weeks later that she realized the gentle presence of a palm tree on her bedside table had influenced the series all along. That realization, of an unnoticed object finding its way into form, revealed the very nature of her practice. Deliberately unplanned, her art unfolds and echoes the rhythms of her unconscious.
Technically, YeonKyung often works with oil, using towels to smudge and soften shapes, dissolving the edges between form and feeling. She favors tone-on-tone color palettes and a delicate hand, producing paintings that evoke both real objects and the hazy textures of memory. The figures in her work, though recognizable, often float in a space between the tangible and the imagined.
Each painting becomes a kind of personal archive. They contain fragments of past experiences, vague emotional undercurrents, and impressions left behind by memory. For YeonKyung, painting is a way of entering these hidden spaces, of liberating something within that cannot be accessed through language alone. Ultimately, she hopes that her work will offer others the chance to do the same. By creating images that are both personal and open-ended, she invites viewers to turn inward, connecting with the subtlety of their own memories, sensations, and stories waiting to be unearthed.
