

JI SU JANG
There exists an intersection of flatness and depth on her canvases. Viewers may feel disconcerted to see three-dimensional masses running into lines that traverse the flat plane. These two art historically antipodal forms nonchalantly faunt themselves, manifesting a surrealist feel. Meanwhile, Jang’s paintings on wooden panel are distinct from canvas productions. The brush strokes are smooth, zoomy, and chromatically more vivid on the fine hard surface.
JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm
Seoul
Figure Studies: Jisu Jang
PNC GALLERY Seoul
30 March – 28 April
Solo Exhibition
2023
PNC GALLERY Seoul
30 March – 28 April

JI SU JANG
Jang’s canvases simultaneously house clashes and interactions between various and at times even incompatible faculties, such as ambiguous objects, flatness and depth, the rough texture of charcoal and the smoothness of wooden panel. The artist sensitively gazes upon her own anxiety and manifests it in cubic sensation. In fact, the most private portraiture of her internality in the paintings may be a point that we all share. We however easily neglect them, or fail to see them with earnestness. The internality that she paints, in effect, is at once a mental and imaginary scene and the internal landscape of her own body. Her personal issues reach and touch upon more universal contexts about our own kind’s internality and interior.
JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm

JI SU JANG
About
PNC Gallery opened in 2012 in Daegu, a city where the Korean avant-garde movement flourished in the 1970s and 1980s.
피앤씨갤러리는 2012년 대구에서 개관하였습니다.
Jisu JANG mobilizes a variety of formative language and media to portray her internality. She uses color pencils, charcoal, or oil pastel to emphasize the lines while also brush-painting with oil. Charcoal, in particular, are central in her paintings. Charcoal-drawn lines convey a sense of force and roughness, speed, directionality, and tension in their colors and textures. With charcoal, she draws murmuring, hesitant, or at times blasting countercurrents of lines. While her previous productions on herself and her surroundings center on charcoal-drawn black masses, more recent works present widely spread-out charcoal lines that often overlap with other media.

JI SU JANG
JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm
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JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm

JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm

JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm

JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm

JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm

JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm

JI SU JANG, 불투명한 창을 만지는 연습 04, 2023, Charcoal, oil on canvas, 45 7/10 × 35 4/5 in | 116 × 91 cm
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