Heewon Oh

Heewon Oh utilizes color pencil over silver canvas as a means of expressing invisible natural phenomena such as the flow of air and dispersal of light. Intrigued by the movement and properties of light and the world of meteorology, the artist studies the expression of these non-material, formless products in a pictorial fashion, and evokes a sense of floating and weightlessness through the repetition and variation of her drawings. Although the overlapping lines of color pencil fill out the layers of canvas in various forms, much like the title of the piece ‘Dispersion’ they also emerge and float above it. Like experiencing the weightlessness of light beaming through a glass window on a clear day, through the artist’s work, you can observe the moment when the spectrum of light changes through the interaction between the light reflecting above the silver and the light encompassed within the painting. Like a single ray of light penetrating through a window and diagonally landing across a wall, the artist’s ‘Erasing’ repeats the process of sharply disconnecting the trajectory of light on the screen with an eraser and then restoring this light once again sporadically.