Hyunsun Jeon Fragmentation Makes Wholeness, 2025
Watercolor on canvas
80 x 80 cm (31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in)
Executed in watercolor on canvas, Hyunsun Jeon's Fragmentation Makes Wholeness depicts four circles into which she painted distinct motifs: an artichoke, two cones, a meadow, and the anatomically correct representation of a heart.
Jeon's paintings focus on a material flatness (a smooth and often matte surface). Her iconography includes shapes read intellectually and intuitively as three dimensional but with an artful two dimensionality that highlights the insistent flatness of her compositions.
Hyunsun Jeon has developed a distinct iconography that combines figurative elements, such as trees, fruits, and objects from everyday life, with abstract forms, color planes and, increasingly since 2014, sets of classic geometric shapes. Jeon’s forms are engaged in a constant shift between dimensions and associations—a cone, for example, may occur as a triangle, rendered with color gradients to suggest depth, or in the form of vulcanoes, mountains or hats. Jeon’s project has an all-encompassing, even world-building quality: quoting different styles as motifs, a work might simultaneously include painterly passages, pointillist sections or simulated brushstrokes, and motifs that have the linear quality of digital renderings or pixelation.
Jeon's paintings focus on a material flatness (a smooth and often matte surface). Her iconography includes shapes read intellectually and intuitively as three dimensional but with an artful two dimensionality that highlights the insistent flatness of her compositions.
Hyunsun Jeon has developed a distinct iconography that combines figurative elements, such as trees, fruits, and objects from everyday life, with abstract forms, color planes and, increasingly since 2014, sets of classic geometric shapes. Jeon’s forms are engaged in a constant shift between dimensions and associations—a cone, for example, may occur as a triangle, rendered with color gradients to suggest depth, or in the form of vulcanoes, mountains or hats. Jeon’s project has an all-encompassing, even world-building quality: quoting different styles as motifs, a work might simultaneously include painterly passages, pointillist sections or simulated brushstrokes, and motifs that have the linear quality of digital renderings or pixelation.