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PARK YOUNG HA박영하
b.1954, Seoul, South Korea.
Park Young Ha is a distinguished Korean painter who has both BFA and MFA degrees from Hong-Ik University, where he subsequently held a professorship. Renowned for his abstract creations, he has garnered several accolades, including the Grand Prize at the Grand Art Exhibition of Korea (1988) and the title of Artist of the Year from the Artist Critics Association, Korea (1991). Park has conducted solo exhibits globally, from Seoul to Sydney, and has participated in prominent art fairs like as KIAF and the Shanghai Art Fair. His work of art is included in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea) and the National Gallery of Australia.
Park has focused on creating paintings that incorporate matieres techniques, which involve adding tangible texture to the artwork by utilizing a combination of materials such as fine sand, gold dust, and stone powders. Park's paintings exhibit a texture that evokes the appearance of a clay wall or "buncheong" ware, a type of blue-green ceramic earthenware that originated during the Joseon era. He arranges them in a stack using metal scrubbers and other primitive equipment. Over time, his paintings assimilate the shades and qualities of their surroundings, taking on the hues of tarnished metals such as browns and reds, the dusty blues of adjacent lakes, and the beiges of ancient plaster. Park has drawn inspiration from nature, which is shown in an abstract manner.
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