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Jiha Moon

Jiha Moon is an Atlanta based painter with whom we worked at a recent Smith College print workshop. Having lived and worked for much of her life in Korea - where she was born - Jiha's work depicts the collision of traditional Asian artistic themes and globalized western iconography. Referencing the forms and techiniques of Eastern brush and ink drawing in her ethereal landscapes, Jiha includes corporate logos and cuddly cartoon animals from a variety of recognizable sources. The juxtaposition of these elements creates a symphony of cliches that is otherworldly and sometimes ominous. Her saturated pallette only heightens the tension between these elements and allows them to escape their individual signficance.

Impure Thoughts, her first etching, is an homage to Philip Guston, whose work has inspired her most recent drawings. Abandoning the colorful explosions of her paintings and gouache drawings, she has scaled back her palette to Philip Guston's signature colors: red, black, pink, flesh tones, and white. Instead of drawing from corporate iconography, she has borrowed some of Guston's imagery, combining it with a red spit-bite plate that she painted much the same way she would have created one of her ink paintings. The result is a tender and playful ode to one of Jiha's favorite artists that retains her unique approach to composition and the orchestration of individually disparate elements.

We are pleased to announce that this edition is now available for purchase from Wingate Studio. Please contact us for further information.

To find out more about Jiha Moon please visit her website. There you can find images of her other work as well as some shots of us working with her at Smith.

Other images and a description of the workshop are available at Woodblock Dreams, a printmaking blog created by artist Annie Bissett.

Jiha is represented by Moti Hasson in New York, Curator's Office in Washington D.C., and by Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta.

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