“Revelations: 2019–2022” Opens June 9
Revelations: 2019-2022
June 9–July 27, 2022
Waterfall Mansion & Gallery
New York, NY
Revelations: 2019-2022 opens on June 9 with work by fall 2021 resident Jinwon Chang. The second solo show of the artist's at Waterfall, the exhibition showcases work created from 2019 through the present, including both his InBetween series, which began prior to the 2020 pandemic, and revelatory work made in solitude throughout the eighteen months of lockdown in his studio and during his residency at Tusen Takk.
Educated in his native Korean painting traditions, Chang primarily works in Sumi ink and Japanese pigments (“Bunchae”) on Hanji paper. In 2004, he moved to New York where he found a new freedom in painting. Departing from the Korean traditional brush techniques, Chang began to use a roller and squeegee with acrylic and charcoal. He soon reincorporated Korean practices and media into his contemporary abstract process, using a brush to apply Sumi inks, acrylics, metallic paints alongside charcoals and pigment pens on Hanji paper.
In the years prior to his InBetween series, Chang utilized a monotone palette, both highlighting his mastery of Sumi ink and representing his confrontation of faith as it shifted from Buddhism to Christianity. In those transitory works, he found explored the connection between humanity's perpetuating ego and an ability to emanate light.
Revelations is the result of the following three hermetic years when Chang’s work exploded in visual tonality, directly related to the expansion of his heart as he opened himself up to ‘eternal light’ and a belief in seeing from the beyond. Painting in the tranquility of his studio, he encountered sacred exchanges and executed intuitive transmissions. In this state of stillness, Chang’s laborious creative process allowed him to slow down and work within the regenerative nature of consciousness. The resulting work is a direct channel of divine encounters, a depiction of what the artist describes as “the divine disclosure found in the form of light.”
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Jinwon Chang is a Korean artist who studied Korean traditional painting in South Korea and moved to New York in 2004. Currently based in New York, Jinwon Chang focuses on life and God in his pieces and uses art to grasp the concepts of invisibility and the spiritual world. He uses art as a tool to overcome his confusion on things he cannot see, and as a starting point for understanding and telling the stories of his personal struggles and triumphs in regards to his faith. Jinwon Chang continues his pursuit of ultimate truth, he creates all of his pieces with the underlying idea that his works are not his own, but rather pieces of truth that are translated through his being. In this way, he views himself more as a vessel than the creator and believes that art is one of the most effective methods of sharing eternal truth with others. For Chang, art is just as much a matter of listening and suppressing as it is a matter of speaking and self-expressing.
Jinwon Chang has had several solo exhibitions in various cities including "WEH-GEEH_Returning Again" St. John's Episcopal Church, Ellenville, NY; Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw County MI; McGregor Memorial Conference Center in Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI. Changs work has been included in group exhibitions such as “Infinite Grace 2", Alpine Mansion, NJ; "Dismantle The Core", Elaine L Jacob Gallery Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. His work is part of collections in Archegos Capital in NY; Wiesbaden City Hall, Germany; Gwangju City Museum in Korea; Artbank National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea; Silpakorn University, Thailand.
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