Folk Art Artist Park So-young, Professor at Underwood University in the US, Holds Solo Exhibitions in Seoul and Gurye

Folk painting artist So-Young Park, a professor of art at Underwood University in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, will hold solo exhibitions consecutively in Seoul and Gurye, Jeollanam-do.

From the 4th to the 10th of next month, the exhibition will be held at Gurye Natural Dream Park, and from the 11th to the 17th, a special exhibition is scheduled at Indie Press Gallery in Seochon, Seoul.

Professor Park resides in Suwanee, USA, and promotes Korean culture through paintings that embody Korea's unique sentiments. She especially paints tigers frequently, and the tigers in her works are depicted in a simplified and friendly form, similar to the folk paintings popular among the common people in the late Joseon period, rather than fierce ones.

Paradise Nakwon, Oil, 2017 [Photo by So-Young Park, artist's homepage]

Professor Park introduces herself as an artist who paints tigers, drawing inspiration from Korean folk paintings but reinterpreting the traditional folk painting tigers with a modern sensibility. She explains that the tigers in her paintings are not aggressive but playful, and they may represent not just the subjects in the paintings but ourselves.

Professor Park completed her doctoral course in Oriental painting at Shanghai University in China. Since 2021, she has been teaching Oriental painting classes in the Department of Art at Underwood University in Suwanee.

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