Red Shadow 2024
This piece is inspired by the city's grid-like nature. Cities can be monotonous and boring in some ways, but the layout of the buildings as well as the narrow alleys and streets that pass through them offer endless light and shadow changes.
The grid and various interlocking lines are such an important part of my work. I really enjoy how the lines and the spaces they form harmonize and mesh with each other. Using 3D pens and polylactic acid, I am able to weave and knot to create two- and three-dimensional structures and surfaces. Surfaces like the linen fabric that I make have enabled transparency, light transmission, and shadow formation that I have been able to use to create this wonderful piecs.
Deep Inside 2024
This work is inspired by the spider's web and shows the existence of various sides in the world where these distorted images, which are created when the ends of my nerves and senses collide and break and are connected, are in harmony. Through this work, I wanted to ask how humans can find peace in this tangled world of desire and temperance.
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Karam Cheong
United States
https://karamcheong.com/collections/208553
A deep desire to create art at a young age led me to NY, where upon completion of BFA in communication design in Parsons School of Design, I started my career as a graphic designer.
My experience as a graphic designer assisted me in finding better ways to combine colors and composing spaces to create art.
I believe creating art is an unconscious process in which intuition leads the tip of the artists’ hands to convey the deepest emotions within the artist onto the surface.
As the strands of different lengths intertwine and overlap by command of my fingertips, changes in time, space, and my thoughts are expressed in a simplistic yet dense manner.
Because small spaces exist in the planes of my paintings, they each form unique shadows when exposed to light, giving my paintings another dimension. Solely through the spaces trapped between the layers and the colors generated by the overlap of each individual strand, I seek to approach the infinite, mysterious “spaces of uncertainty”.