Hyunhee Doh
Hyunhee Doh (b.1996) is a South Korean visual artist. She holds an MA degree in Painting from Royal College of Art in London and a BFA degree in Fine Arts from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Hyunhee Doh creates 'time pieces'. She achieves the closest metaphor to the subjectivity of time by repetitively stacking layers of wet traces on Hanji - Korean traditional paper - surface. She follows the flow of traces that Hanji wrinkles, holds and leaves, then recreates the final form that resonates with the inevitability of wet traces.
She treats Hanji not only as a surface but also as a connecting plot to her painting process. Her practice starts from creating wrinkles with Hanji. The semi-sculptural structure of wrinkles hold the shades of pigment from each layer of wetting. As the wetting repeats, the previous shades often washes off, stays, or stack up every time she adds another layer. She lets the shades lead to the narratives within the picture plane and follows it with dry material. During the slow and long process, she conveys the more timely metaphor.