The traditional Eastern approach of striving to convey not the outward appearance but the inner spiritual essence of natural subjects takes spectacular form in the richly colored abstract paintings of this Korean-born, New York-based artist. Against mottled, semi-monochrome backgrounds, various bright forms-resembling flames, waterfalls, nebulae and microcosmic organisms-sweep or swirl (and sometimes explode), each covered with a subtle net of lines that give the surface the eerie effect of skin cells. Here, the entire universe seems alive.
