A first-generation Korean-American and native New Yorker, I am a mostly self-taught painter based in Brooklyn, New York. I take great pleasure in traditional methods of oil painting and watercolor, especially working "en plein air," i.e. on site with a portable easel when the weather is nice.
My goal, in oil paint or watercolors, is to capture the spirit of a scene at a particular instance. There is no shortage of wonderful subjects in my backyard: whether Park Slope’s historic brownstone neighborhood where I live, or nature’s bounty in Prospect Park or Brooklyn Botanic Garden, or the gritty, industrial zone by the Gowanus Canal near my studio. I am often attracted to views that might not have obvious aesthetic appeal, but where the commonplace seems to have a special patina or glint of beauty.
I show my work regularly in solo and group exhibitions in the New York City area and during Gowanus
Open Studios; my paintings are in countless private collections in the USA, Italy, France, and Austria, and in a few corporate collections. Three of my paintings were selected by the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. State Department to be displayed at the U.S. Embassy in Geneva, Switzerland, 2014-18. I am honored to be included in the book "100 New York Painters," by C.M. Dantzic, (Schiffer Books, 2006).
