South Korean artist Jung Kwang Sik is internationally recognized for his masterful fusion of painting and sculpture. Utilizing beds of carved and scratched granite, which he then paints, his works suggest sweeping landscapes viewed from an aerial perspective. These poetic works have an uneven surface; they are sculpture in relief. His grinding work has a limitation in direction and usually achieves patterns of hexagons. The addition of paint to the crowns of these hexagons lends an architectural element to the piece, emblematic of cities, villages and roads.

Jung’s scenery does not represent a specific geographical location or any one culture. The images arise from within his mind and become materialized in trails of crustal movements, swelling and contracting of the earth and the etched beauty of erosion. The visual field is epic and dynamic. There is at once a visual tension and an induced tranquility brought on by the undulations of seeming waves of density and dispersion and high-low pitch. Jung has expressed the desire to capture the ebb and flow, the eternal and the universal rhythm of the relationship between man and our world.

BIO
Lives and works in South Korea

EDUCATION
1996 B.F.A Sculpture, Hong-ik University
1992 Stage Design Major, Carara Academy, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Nampo Art Museum, Goheung, Korea (July)
-- Ponetive Space, Paju, Heiry, Korea (September)
2010 Healing Scenery II, Gallery Jak, Korea
-- VIEW, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2009 City of Imagination, Sol Beach Gallery
-- Healing Scenery, Gallery Jak
-- VIEW Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2007 Ponetive Space, Paju, Heiry, Korea
2005 Gallery On, Seoul, Korea
2001 Sungbo Gallery
1998 Insa Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 ART HK 11, with Kwai Fung Him Art Gallery, Hong Kong Intl Art Fair, Hong Kong (May)
-- Ode To Art, Singapore
-- Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong (July)
-- Stone Garden, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Commence: A Philosophical Détente, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
-- Korea Tomorrow, SETEC, Seoul, Korea
-- Power Of Sculpture, Samtoh Gallery, Seoul, Korea
-- Art Actually, Kunst, Seoul
-- Hill State Gallery, Seoul, Korea
-- R. Mutt Gallery, Chuncheon MBC, Korea
-- KUNG, Shinhan Art Hall and Ssol Beach Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 The Gait of a Bull, Jang Eunsun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
-- The Great Hands, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
-- Hello Spring, N Gallery
2008 Space of Expedition, Beijing / Isub Daecheon Exhibition
-- Icheon Sculpture Members Exhibition, Icheon / Party Exhibition, Gayang Gallery, Busan, Korea
-- Icheon International Sculpture Symposium Exhibition
2007 Let's go to the Kim's Chungmu Art Center / Sungnam Sculpture Exhibition, Yuldong Park, South Korea
-- MBC Sculpture Exhibition / 5 Sculptures Exhibition, Sohun Gallery
-- Revival of Marks, Seoul station, Korea
2006 EHS Exhibition, Sejong Center for Performing Arts, Seoul, Korea
-- Sungnam Sculpture Association, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
2005 Journey of Art / Melting zone, Davinci Gallery
-- Hongik Sculpture Association, Kwanhoon Gallery
-- Sungnam Sculpture Association, Sungnam / Pohang International Art Festival, Pohang, South Korea
-- The Encounter of Past, Present and Fulture, Dongi Gallery

COLLECTIONS
Aley Sculpture Park, Lebanon
Bucheckmese sculpture park, Istanbul, Turkey
Chang-a building, Seoul
Expo sculpture park, Icheon
Gyonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
National Museum of Contemporary Art (Artbank), Kwa-chon
Ssol Beach Resort, Yangyang City, Korea
Swiss Private Bank
Youngrang Lake, Sokcho, Gangwon Province