The artistic focus of my recent work, drawing from a culmination
of life experiences, is the juxtaposition of image and character and
the transformation of their visual and verbal meanings.
My early exposure to Chinese and Korean art while growing up in Korea,
and my studies of Asian art while living in Korea as an adult gave me
an appreciation of the aesthetics of early Korean and Chinese painting,
calligraphy, and the powerful interrelationships between word and image.
My recent works explore text, pattern, paint and the tension between
reading a text for personal and public meaning and looking at its visual
form.
My paintings are constructions of memories, sentiments, and messages.
I combine layers of pattern, collage, drawing and painting. This becomes
a way to find a central place of personal power and meaning in the midst
of conflicting powers and cultures, east and west, female and male, native
and immigrant, parent and child.
UNA KIM
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
B.F.A., University of Sothern California, Los Angeles, California
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1998 Gallery at the Federation of Korean Artistic & Culture, Seoul, Korea
