Hyunsun Jeon Cherry Cakes, 2025
Watercolor on canvas
100 x 200 cm (39 3/8 x 78 3/4 in)
Cherry Cakes by Hyunsun Jeon hovers in-between abstraction and figurative painting. Geometrical shapes and patterns are interwoven with the depiction of leaves, cherries, and apple slices in varying shades and sizes.
Executed in watercolor, 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.
Jeon's paintings are explorations of shifting shapes and forms that take on meaning only to shed it again. While Jeon draws on geometric shapes and everyday objects, her paintings also employ a formal language of simplified landscapes reminiscent of early digital imagery, sometimes even alluding to pixelated glitches.
Executed in watercolor, 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.
Jeon's paintings are explorations of shifting shapes and forms that take on meaning only to shed it again. While Jeon draws on geometric shapes and everyday objects, her paintings also employ a formal language of simplified landscapes reminiscent of early digital imagery, sometimes even alluding to pixelated glitches.