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Art Practice 2020 @harri.sun
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
2022
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
2019
ink on paper, collage
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
2016
Watercolor
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
2018
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
The sky disc’s dynamic effects on viewing the sky were photographically documented over the course of a sunrise and a sunset.
2017
Installation: printed plastic sheeting (pictorico), fishing wire
Exploring the weary determination of an aged subject shouldering generational burdens. Experimented with earthier and darker tones, deconstruction, an
Oil Paint on Canvas
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
Link to Website
2024
Video Art
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Environmental Photographs
This work showcases cultural connection and displacement. The food that should be on your table is now hung on a wall, commemorated but inaccessible.
Monoprints on food wrapping paper, laser cut stencils
This piece explores duality in behavior: relaxing the tongue can provide a positive experience during kissing, but can prove deadly with sleep apnea. Link to Artwork
Writing
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
2021
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
Oil paint on canvas
A depiction of the Southeast Alaskan landscape, seen from a kayak near the Inian Islands. 25.5″ x 36″
Oil paint on paper
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
2020
Photography
It is difficult for humans to accept their own flaws and imperfections. This is a self-portrait displaying my many different tones and personalities.
Acrylic on Paper
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
Laser Cut Birchwood
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
Acrylic on Canvas
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.