Event: "Dong Hwan Bai". 

Date: July 27, 2010 ~ Aug 5, 2010.

Reception: July 27, 2010.  5:00pm - 8:00pm

Who:  Dong Hwan Bai

Where: Gallery Western - 210 N. Western Ave. #201 Los Angeles, California. 90004.  

Phone:(323)962-0008   www.gallerywestern.com    chlee@gallerywestern.com  Cell:(323)445-3882

Details:  The artist seems to nearly reach the discovery of Nature itself. A very conceptual pine tree is stretching out its branches geometrically. Winds seem to go through its body and break its branches, or they become a background with a coquettish conduct.  The canvas is filled with the inner life of the invisible.

In the western paintings, a line has been considered an attribute or a complement of the object itself until Impressionism emerged. However, in the lessons of Impressionism, there were no lines such as in the lines of apples or fields; the lines are “the potential’ as a composite power, which leads to the occurrence of things.

The artist reveals this potential by scrapping off his paint.  In fact, the lines in his paintings are the backgrounds that can be seen only once the surface has been deleted.  His pictures are chaotic in the sense that it is a place where his subject and the background exist together and breathe from each other.   Hence, the artist’s works have the power of life, created from the depths of the unseen, and apart from “the real,” until finally; the painting becomes the scenery of existence itself.   

Park, Eung-Ju (Art Studies)