Sunny Chyun
Artist Statement
I experience each of my paintings as a coalescing of elusive perceptions, memories and meaning; a bringing to awareness of momentary possibilities emerging from the unconscious. As such, my practice is in the tradition of Abstract Expressionism as I engage the physicality of material to resonate emotions and challenge pictorial conventions. The symbolic imagery that emerges through this method of painting undermines how I constitute reality. Synthesizing my surroundings this way, the anarchic nature of my imaginary world embodies a reality that aspires beyond the contingencies of the body and a consciousness that aspires beyond the prison-house of self. Painting is therefore, for me, an alchemical process that seeks to physically transform instinct into self-reflection, the material into the spiritual.
Artist Web site
I experience each of my paintings as a coalescing of elusive perceptions, memories and meaning; a bringing to awareness of momentary possibilities emerging from the unconscious. As such, my practice is in the tradition of Abstract Expressionism as I engage the physicality of material to resonate emotions and challenge pictorial conventions. The symbolic imagery that emerges through this method of painting undermines how I constitute reality. Synthesizing my surroundings this way, the anarchic nature of my imaginary world embodies a reality that aspires beyond the contingencies of the body and a consciousness that aspires beyond the prison-house of self. Painting is therefore, for me, an alchemical process that seeks to physically transform instinct into self-reflection, the material into the spiritual.
Artist Web site