Crevice

Hyegyeong Choi

BornNationalityBased In
1986N/ABrooklyn
Biography

Using a combination of precise swirling palette knives and thick, layered acrylics, HyeGyeong Choi's painting delves into the intricate socio-cultural dynamics she navigates as a female subject. Her works, emblematic of phantasmagorical terrains are populated with extramundane flora and fauna and employ a vibrant chromatic spectrum with whimsical visual motifs. Employing media such as watercolors, colored pencils, ink pens, and intermittently acrylics, her evocative and intense compositions often feature rotund-faced entities ensconced in landscapes reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch's iconography. These habitats, punctuated by lilac-hued suns, amber clouds, passion fruit hillocks, floral efflorescences, and phallic fungi, coalesce to engross the observer in a mesmeric visual tableaux. Rooted in her Korean heritage, Choi grapples with the prescriptive aesthetic paradigms imposed upon women, delineating a specific archetype of femininity. Her artistry audaciously engages with discourses surrounding corporeal perception, self-identity, gender constructs, and sexual identity, thereby contesting and critiquing the entrenched sexual prescriptions in Korean ethos that perpetuate female objectification. ...

Selected Artworks
Ritual Ceremony of AspenFairies
Hyegyeong Choi
Ritual Ceremony of AspenFairies, 2022
162.56 x 182.88cm
Ate the Pac-Man Game
Hyegyeong Choi
Ate the Pac-Man Game, 2022
152.4 x 182.88cm
Broken Batwoman
Hyegyeong Choi
Broken Batwoman, 2022
81.28 x 101.6cm
Garden of Chemistry Room
Hyegyeong Choi
Garden of Chemistry Room, 2022
187.96 x 213.36cm
Getaway 2.0
Hyegyeong Choi
Getaway 2.0, 2022
157.48 x 147.32cm
Crevice
Hyegyeong Choi
Crevice, 2023
182.8 x 167.6cm
Live on The Edge
Hyegyeong Choi
Live on The Edge, 2023
152.4 x 132.1cm
Public Bath
Hyegyeong Choi
Public Bath, 2023
127 x 109.2cm
Struggling Fitting Room in Soho
Hyegyeong Choi
Struggling Fitting Room in Soho, 2023
182.8 x 167.6cm
Priorities
Hyegyeong Choi
Priorities, 2023
101.6 x 116.8cm
Gallery Representation
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