Sin Park
Based Glasgow, UK
About
My relationship to painting is connected to the idea of delivering surface or of a space, also, abstracted image function on the surface as metaphors for subjectivity, memory. The real is transformed from one thing into another in the process. It explores memory through the creation of space for invisible visibility and familiar unfamiliarity. In a mysterious moment when uncertainty takes affect the whole painting shifts into the unknown, a metamorphosis that happens often from a lack of control, fear and failure, a form of uncertain certainty in the painting surface. Momentary gestural action delivers that perhaps timeless desire to become one with another sought within instant intuition and improvisation. Therefore you could say that I fall to the surface, into the unforeseen results. The sensory apparatus makes this possible, makes textural surface and surface of emotional sense an extended moment of absolute proximity and distance, all at once. Images from the source of drawing have replaced the actual color and juxtaposition of a dot, line, plain, and an image has therefore fallen away in place of this more exhilarating abstraction. Painting is an apparatus of fantasy driven by desire, the desire of the artist, the subject, and the viewer. Within this notion of memory, the work of art remains within a perpetual process of becoming, the idea of space never quite imaged or captured, forever eluding the present, always already lost but always potentially bringing or delivering familiarities.
Education
- Since 2017: Ph.D. in Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
- 2015 - 2017: MA in Painting, Royal College of Art, London
- 2007 - 2012: B.A in History of Art, College of Liberal Art & B.F.A in Painting, College of Art & Design, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Selected Exhibitions & Awards
- 2019: Solo/duo exhibition, Virtues of Real/ Necessity of Imaginary, The Art Space, Glasgow
- 2019: Group exhibition, Crocodile Tears, Greenpoint Open Studios 2019, New York
- 2019: Group exhibition, Bath Open Art Prize 2019, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, 44AD Artspace, Bath
- 2019: Group exhibition, AucArt Lab, 189 Gloucester Place, London
- 2019: Group exhibition, 10th Flourish Award 2018, Spike Print Studio, Bristol
- 2018: Group exhibition, Flourish award 2018, PR1Gallery, Preston
- 2018: Group exhibition, Pop-up exhibition, Albereta Relais & Chateaux, Milan
- 2018: Group exhibition, Flourish award 2018, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, West Yorkshire
- 2018: Group exhibition, Art & Nature, ARNA, Harlösa
- 2018: Group exhibition, Skip-Ad; Play, Savoy Center, Glasgow
- 2018: Group exhibition, Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018 Shortlist Show, Ashurst LLP, London
- 2018: Group exhibition, No Safe Haven, The Pipe Factory Gallery, Glasgow
- 2018: Group exhibition, Odysseys (SYN Festival Edinburgh), Summerhall, Edinburgh
- 2018: Flourish Award 2018, RK Burt&co. Prize, West Yorkshire (Awardee)
- 2017: Group exhibition, Biophilia, KI Europe, London
- 2017: Group exhibition, One Summer Night, Crypt Gallery, London
- 2017: Group exhibition, RCA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
- 2017: Group exhibition, The Arrival, Square Gallery, London
- 2017: Group exhibition, Under the see, Crypt Gallery, London
Press
- 2019: ‘Sin Park’, FOA Volume 9 (USA: FOA Magazine, May 28, 2019)
- 2019: ‘Sin Park’, Artmaze Mag, Spring issue 12 (London: ArtMaze Magazine, May 8, 2019), p. 94-95
- 2019: WOTISART #24, March 2019, p. 7-8
- 2017: ArticulAction, Special Issue, 2017
Credentials
- Represented in top-class corporate collection (HSBC London)
- Award winner
- Featured in relevant press
- Internationally exhibited
Purchase artwork by Sin Park
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Achievements & Goals
- Having a big studio
- Working between London, New York and Milan
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Genre & Style
- Abstract art
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Inspiration & Vision
- Walk of Life
- Nature and City
- Emotion
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Sales & Trajectory
- Sold works in the past
- Self-financed through sales
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Technique & Material
- Acrylic
- Oil and oil pastels
- Marker
