Sangho Han

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

Paintings are all connected. and also this is all about continuity. Like Federico Fellini's 8 and 2/1, like Honore de Balzac's the human comedy, I tried to understand everyone I met in my life. And the attempts always failed. I'm a painter who is interested in the history of abstraction. Currently I'm using different materials such as canvas, woods, paper and walls with my drawing practices. First of all, drawing and painting on two or three pieces of canvas, wood that have been joined together to make a one piece. More specifically, I'm working on a 6 ft and 7 inches wood using acrylics, pencils and house paint. In general, 2-5 canvases are completed in one work, and the work re-arranged depending on the space where they are installed. As I work, I experience the forms of painting and sculpture together, changing the order of woods or the position of the canvas up and down according to the pictorial space, or putting them back in place. It's a completely different form of working with canvas and it's one of the different experiences I've found within this practice from traditional canvas works. The figures drawn on the woods are a psychological anecdote of the people I have experienced in New York, and also it is self-portrait. Divided mark making on a divided screen. The brush strokes are being portrayed in a variety of ways. I make these expressions using pencil, acrylic and house paint. The abstractions are all looking straight ahead. Most of them look at the viewer in...

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