Park Byung Hoon
Park Byung-Hoons paintings are manifestations of the marriage between bold gestural abstraction and delicate transparency.
While at first glance, the works are reminiscent of an ethereal Mark Rothko, or a vibrant Clyfford Still, Byung-Hoon is more
than a master of contemporary abstract expressionism.
He is equally aligned with performance art, his work, acting like a relic of a performative action painting caught mid-stroke.
Byung-Hoon takes advantage of the translucence of glass to create a narrative; each layer of acrylic plexiglas revealing a
different chapter to his process. Existing simultaneously as paintings and sculptures, Byung-Hoon never attempts to
control his paint. Instead he allows it to drip and flow before capturing it mid-motion between layers of acrylic.
The beauty of each layer fully realized. What is left is a dimensional and storied composition that melds sculpture and painting and
allows the viewer to see the inside of a painting.
The contrast between his seductive and dynamic layers of vibrant color and his hard- edged and minimalistic layers of Plexiglas are inherently provocative and demanding. The viewer is confronted with this divergence before sinking slowly into the layers of Byung-Hoons chronicle. Byung-
Hoon, coming from three generations of Pastor families, and his works, loosely inspired by stained glass windows, are sometimes viewed as windows to the soul.
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