This vibrant painting depicts a striking red rose amidst a lush green backdrop. The composition features bold, gestural brushstrokes in a vibrant emerald hue, creating a dynamic and expressive surface. The central rose stands out with its rich, crimson petals, capturing the viewer's attention. The overall style suggests an abstract, yet representational approach, exploring the interplay of color, shape, and texture. The artist's intention seems to celebrate the beauty and essence of the rose, presenting it in a bold, contemporary manner that invites the viewer to engage with the work's visual and emotive qualities. ...
Oh Sufan is a Korean Abstract painter, who blends both Eastern and Western influences within his large-scale paintings. With an interest in capturing the act of painting rather than focusing on a specific aesthetic outcome, each work bears the traces of his playful interactions with paint. Bold brushstrokes and swathes of colour meet more intentional, calligraphic or primordial symbols, developing a distinctive visual vocabulary for the artist to work with. He has a particular interest in existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism and semiotics, in addition to the teachings of Laozi, Zhuangzi and the Chinese classics. Often working with his eyes closed, Oh Sufan will draw on this rich array of philosophical readings, visually digesting these texts on the canvas. This merging of creativity and consciousness gives each work an incredibly expressive tone, as myriad sources collide with Oh Sufan’s own intuition. Although these works undoubtedly engage with the lineage of Abstract Expressionism, Oh Sufan has carved an arresting and joyful visual lexicon of his own to deliver these bold works of art. ...
