About The Work

IM SUNNY continues to explore the essence of flatness through a meta-approach to painting. She seeks to reveal the inherent properties of the painting medium, particularly through color and brushstrokes. She prioritizes the role of formative elements like brushstrokes, color, form, and composition over the depiction of the subject. While borrowing representational imagery, the artist does not objectify it, instead establishing a "painting about painting." This approach appropriates Western painting's idiom while incorporating personal perspective and interpretation.

Her flatness extends beyond a simple flat surface to a space of thin, subtle layers constructed through gradual changes in color. Because color folds and overlaps without outlines or shadows, form and color maintain an organic balance, rather than being subordinate to one another.

This can be interpreted as a rejection of the illusory space of traditional painting, based on perspective and perspective, and an attempt to foreground the inherent logic of painting. As a result, the artist explores the complex aesthetic possibilities that contemporary painting can have through a reinterpretation of flatness.

Provenance

Artist Collection, 2025

Exhibitions

2017 《Painting as a Medium》, UARTSPACE, Seoul