Born in South Korea, artist Sung Jik Yang immigrated to the USA, the place he at present resides in Los Angeles. His portraits function folks he is aware of fairly properly, working as a type of visible diary reflecting their relationships. “Their particular person life tales and my interpretation/notion of them, together with the chemistry and bond between my topics and me, are important for me to conceptualize and visualize after I painting them,” he says. He makes use of drawing and portray as processes via which to get to know his topics higher, explaining: “My works exhibit the bodily, emotional, and psychological buildings of individuals round me. I believe that probably the most rewarding side of being an artist is when my creative creation helps folks to specific their sense of id. I search for individuals who carry out an power and wonder that can’t be defined in phrases, and I want to present it via my work.”
Sung Jik Yang is represented by Pals Certainly Gallery in San Francisco.
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