Choi Yoonhee’s (B.1986) paintings depict accumulated time that remains like a trace. Paint is layered onto the canvas where atypical smudges and tangled thread-like lines merge in abstract landscapes of flowing waves, portraying inner emotions, memories, and traces of time. Transitioning from capturing the outskirts of the cityscape to delving deep into the inner self, Choi replaced her intense strokes and vibrant colors with compositions of faint and subtle lines and surfaces, the light strokes of her paintbrush just barely grazing the surface of the canvas. Incorporating a tactile sense of physically rubbing the paint with her hands, she portrays a continuous flow connected by subtle emotional nuances, devoid of any sharpness. Her gaze towards the inner self follows the traces that remain when one closes one's eyes or covers one's ears to block out sight and sound. These moments are not of disappearance, where nothing is left, but exist in their own ineffable form, a shape that is not a shape, a sound that is not a sound.

Choi Yoonhee graduated from Gachon University with a degree in Painting and obtained a Master's in Visual Art from the Korea National University of Arts. She has held solo exhibitions at various institutions, including The Moments of Night at Gallery 175 in 2017, the OCI Museum of Art, PS Sarubia, and A-Lounge Gallery. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at the Daejeon Museum of Art, Amado Art, P21, and Common Center. She has been selected as a supported artist for PS Sarubia and as an OCI Young Creative by the OCI Museum of Art.

최윤희(B.1986)는 비정형의 얼룩들과 엉킨 실타래 같은 가느다란 선으로 물감의 층위를 쌓아 흔적처럼 남은 축적된 시간을 그린다. 내면의 감정과 기억, 시간의 흔적은 선과 면이 흐르는 파동과 같은 추상적 풍경으로 표출된다. 기존의 도시 외곽의 풍경을 포착하는 작업에서 방향을 돌려 내면으로 깊숙이 들어가는 과정에서 강렬했던 터치와 색감을 스치듯 지나가는 붓질의 자국으로 희미하고 옅은 선과 면의 구성으로 전환하였다. 그에 손으로 물감을 문지르는 신체적 감각을 더해 날카로움이 제거된, 감정의 미세한 차이와 끊임없이 연결되어 움직이는 흐름을 표현한다. 내면을 향하는 시선은 마치 눈과 귀를 닫아 시야와 소리가 차단되는 순간 아무것도 남지 않는 사라짐이 아닌 그 자체의 형형할 수 없는 형상이 아닌 형상, 소리가 아닌 소리로 남는 흔적을 따라간다.

최윤희는 가천대학교 회화과를 졸업하고 한국예술종합학교 조형예술학과 전문사를 취득하였다. 2017년 <반짝하는 밤>(갤러리 175)을 비롯하여 OCI 미술관, 프로젝트 스페이스 사루비아, A lounge 갤러리 등에서 개인전을 열었으며, 대전시립미술관, 아마도 예술공간, P21, 커먼센터에서 개최한 다수의 그룹전에 참여하였다. 프로젝트 스페이스 사루비아 전시 지원 작가, OCI 미술관 OCI Young Creatives로 선정된 바 있다.

Born
1986
Gyeonggi, Korea
Education
2014
MFA Department of Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2010
Painting, Gachon University, Seoul, Korea
Solo exhibitions
2023
Mute, A-Lounge Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021
Far from the Start, PS Sarubia, Seoul, Korea
2020
Cutting the Spring, Hakgojae Design | PROJECT SPACE, Seoul, Korea
2019
Recording Pattern, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Counting the Lights, Yeemock Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017
The Moments of Night, Gallery 175, Seoul, Korea
Group exhibitions
2023
Thick Skin, G Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Acquainted with the Night, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
Unseen, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Tentative Romanticism, nook gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022
The Fool on the Hill, ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea
BGA Index: Open Storage, BGA Index, Seoul, Korea
The 9th Amado Annualnale, Amado Art, Seoul, Korea
Circuit Seoul #2 Omnipresent, Loop Station Ikseon, Seoul, Korea
Layered, IBK Art Station, Seoul, Korea
Collector’s Cut, Space So, Seoul, Korea
2021
BGA Showroom Part3: Scenery, BGA Maru, Seoul, Korea
2020
Untact, P21, Seoul, Korea
2019
Corners 3: Cave and Garden, Keep in Touch, Seoul, Korea
MIMESIS AP 2: FLAT, NOT FLAT, Mimesis Art Museum, Gyeonggi, Korea
Scattered Scenery, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017
Light and Shade, Yeemock Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014
Unfamiliar Airs, space bm, Seoul, Korea
Romantic Resistance of Embodied Routine, KiMi Art, Seoul, Korea
Today’s Salon, Common Center, Seoul, Korea
Chilled Edge, Seokgwan-dong Campus Gallery of Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2013
Drawn to Drawing, Gallery175, Seoul, Korea
Drawn to Drawing, Nakai Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Drawn to Drawing, Kaze Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2012
Fresh Idea, Sangwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Thinking of Sarubia, Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012
2012 The Art Factory Project, Sunset Jang-Hang Festival, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea
2011
Heavy, Deep and Dark, Yeemock Gallery, Seoul, Korea
L’attente, L’oubli,, Theory Gallery of Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2010
The Orbit of Painting, Seokgwan-dong Campus Gallery of Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
Awards
2021
PS Sarubia Support Artist, PS Sarubia, Seoul, Korea
2019
OCI Young Creatives, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Collections
OCI Museum of Art
Mimesis Art Musem
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
Publications
2020
NAMELESS TAPE, Indie Publish, Korea