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.


Harper's

Brooklyn

Seoul

New York City

Nada

Miami

NADA Miami

Art Miami

Los Angeles

Jeffrey Deitch

Anton Kern Gallery

Chart

London

Carl Kostyál

Shanghai

Pond Society

Chicago

Expo Chicago

Hyegyeong Choi

School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago (Saic)

Priorities

Struggling Fitting Room in Soho

Public Bath

Live on The Edge

Crevice

Getaway 2.0

Garden of Chemistry Room

Broken Batwoman

Ate the Pac-Man Game

Ritual Ceremony of AspenFairies