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Ji Min Hwang

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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement


Capturing the moments when my life views and personal experiences click together is what I want. I believe a lot of things that we overlook in our daily life have a spiritual quality that reveals our strength and potential to move forward. My work intends to highlight the spiritual dimension that lies behind the events and obstacles we encounter in life and to bring that to the viewer’s attention. In this body of work, my paintings introduce a portal to another space where the viewer can experience and recall their own bittersweet moments and understand the coexistence of different kinds of emotion.

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