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artist statement
artist statement
My painting explores the idea of an asymmetrical balance that creates paradoxical spatial relationships and the ambivalence associated with identity. While I employ abstraction as a means of compressing my personal perceptions and experiences, my recent work incorporates recognizable forms to better elucidate my subjectivity, often intertwined with socio-political and cultural specifics.The architectural visual elements such as grids, stripes, or checkerboards are subtly used to explore disconnection and connection, while providing an underlying structure. Arch-like shapes, distorted square forms, and other idiosyncratic elements with recognizable shapes and patterns are anthropomorphized to suggest their multifaceted and sometimes contradictory relationships that can be both confrontational and comforting.My paintings aim to open a larger conversation about diversity and coexistence in social contexts by transforming rigid structures into places of human possibility, rather than suppression. Through my work, emotions such as anger, anxiety, playfulness, hope, and possibility can coexist and thrive.
bio
bio
Su A Chae is an artist and educator with a primary focus on painting. Having initially worked in accounting academia in South Korea, she gained insights into the role of accounting in reducing information asymmetry and moral hazards within capitalism. After relocating to the United States and transitioning to a career as an artist, Chae now explores the evolving role of painting in the digital age. Her work delves into asymmetrical balance creating paradoxical spatial relationships and the complexities associated with cultural identity. Chae holds an MFA in Painting from Indiana University and an MA and BA in Business from Ewha Womans University in South Korea. She completed the Tyler School of Art Summer Painting Intensive.
Chae’s work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Painting Center, Deanna Evans Projects, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Paradise Palace, and 5-50 Gallery in New York, as well as Gross McCleaf Gallery and Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Art Center, and others across the Midwest. Her work has been featured on platforms like Young Space and the Hopper Prize (as a grant finalist), and in publications such as New American Paintings, White Hot Magazine, and I Like Your Work.
Chae has participated in artist residencies at Penland School of Craft, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, and ACRE. She has served as a juror for the Dairy Barn Arts Center and as a guest lecturer at the University of Connecticut. Her work is collected by Eskenazi Health, Indiana University, and private collectors.
Chae’s work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Painting Center, Deanna Evans Projects, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Paradise Palace, and 5-50 Gallery in New York, as well as Gross McCleaf Gallery and Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Art Center, and others across the Midwest. Her work has been featured on platforms like Young Space and the Hopper Prize (as a grant finalist), and in publications such as New American Paintings, White Hot Magazine, and I Like Your Work.
Chae has participated in artist residencies at Penland School of Craft, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, and ACRE. She has served as a juror for the Dairy Barn Arts Center and as a guest lecturer at the University of Connecticut. Her work is collected by Eskenazi Health, Indiana University, and private collectors.
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