Gyeong Hee GU

 

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Gyeong Hee  GU , alias “Grace” was born in Korea in 1978, and graduated from Seoul City University in Visual Design, and Korea textile design. She is also a certified art psychology therapist/instructor.  She created and  directs  Grace Art Arts Corporation, giving  master classes educating children in Busan, occasionally  exhibiting in Busan, London, Basel and  Los Angeles . In 2022 she opened  her  own “Grace gallery” and  decided  to start exhibiting more  frequently her works in Korea  and  overseas.  

 

An intense spiritual experience, meditation and introspection  rooted in both Zen Buddhism  and  Christianity, drives her  inspiration.

 

Her technique  involves creating  a base  of up to 30 layers of paint  over which she applies hundreds, a thousand fishing  lines tensed and  woven  in the back of the canvas.  She  applies  additional pigments  on the wires,  to produce  a  seeming interference  pattern on her  works. She  also  deposit drops  of resin  that evoke  the morning  dew  depositing  on the  fine  spider  web. With time Gyeong Hee GU is moving away from canvas to experiment with metal and glass.

 

The fishing line is  but her  own portrait:

“I needed a line that looked weak but was strong, and that felt exactly like me”.

 

“Day by day, I face a new dawn greeted by vibrations in air and wondering thoughts. In this volatile world, I am refreshed by the very symmetry that resides in God’s creation, and in such orderliness do I desire to walk. This world bears diverse ways of life, yet through these exhibits, I wish to inspire the audiences to be transformed by the unchanging beauty found in God’s creation. “