Hea Sook Yoo, Modernist Abstract Oil Painting

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Hea-Sook Yoo, artist, internationally renowned, has her paintings hanging in
residences, businesses and art galleries on three continents over three … Read more Hea-Sook Yoo, artist, internationally renowned, has her paintings hanging in
residences, businesses and art galleries on three continents over three decades.Ms. Yoo is classically trained, a graduate of the prestigious art college, Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea. She is a veteran of art shows in Korea, France, Germany and the United States.
In 1993, Ms. Yoo left Korea for a five-year stay in Brive, France (four hours by
train from Paris). There, she traveled extensively, made a great connection with the people and the countryside and garnered many prizes for her works. In 1998, Hea-Sook arrived in the Los Angeles area where many clients now treasure owning her works. Among the California galleries where she has exhibited are the
Sunyata Gallery in San Pedro, the Don O'Melveny Gallery in the Los Angeles Wilshire/La Brea area, The Santa Barbara Art Company in Santa Barbara and
the Classic Artforms Gallery Beverly Blvd/Doheny Blvd., L.A...
Hea-Sook started the series in 2002 using a mounting board on a wood frame but now use canvas as well. Oil paints, acrylics, water colors, pencils are the
ingredients chosen for the pieces' magical allure. More prominent in the earlier
works, interspersed random newspaper cuttings with blocks of printed words
reinforce the art works' symbolic theme: conversation. The mind is filled with
memories of the past, visions of the future and a need for conversation in the
present. It is an endless search for meaning. See less