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Rim Chae
Prana
2017

About the Item

Chae, Rim started her career as a jewelry designer in 2000. Since then, she has received multiple awards, including the 2001 and 2005 International Pearl Design Competition held by Mikimoto, and the 2001 Asian Facet Award by Signity Hong Kong. Having had a successful career in jewelry design, Chae took her passion to the next level and transformed into “an artist of lacquer and mother-of-pearl”, by combining traditional jewelry designs with materials such as mother-of-pearl, coral, pearls, jade, and amber. Her artworks, which embrace both past and present, are not simply paintings. Rather, they are sculptural paintings that encompass elements from both mediums. Chae’s unique works of art were accepted to and exhibited at the Start Art Fair held at London’s Saatchi Gallery in September 2017. Not only was Chae the first Korean ever to win the SOLO Award at the 2017 Art expo New York, she was also awarded by the International Andre Malraux Association at the International Cultural Heritage Fair held in Paris. Recently, she has held numerous solo exhibitions, including “The Musing Forest” at Hakgojae Gallery in Seoul, and international exhibitions in New York and Paris. Chae has also actively participated in leading art fairs hosted in cities such as Singapore, Cologne, Taipei, London, Paris, Brussels, and Toulouse. In 2018, Chae aspires to show the world Korea’s rich culture through her lacquer and mother-of-pearl artwork at New York’s Artexpo and Context, as well as in Venice. My works stem from the Korean ‘Najeon Chilgi’ technique (lacquerware with inlaid mother-of-pearl decors). Yet because of my years as a jewelry designer, the traditional Najeon Chilgi and Ottchil now blossom into a new form of art. Nature-inspired, traditional motifs are made like brooches with silver and mother-of-pearl. The silver, mother-of-pearl motifs are then carefully laid upon the lacquered surface, which has been varnished by hand. When the motifs are one by one anchored to the surface, the meticulous process finally comes to an end. The finished artwork is complex in its contradictions. Its structure appears to be of two-dimension, as well as appearing three-dimensional; it is very traditional yet modern; pictorial yet sculptural. For my recent work, I freed up from the fixed, traditional lacquer technique and tried to follow the inspiration and energy movement within me. I strayed from the original 30~40 repetitive procedures of varnishing, grinding and drying. Instead, my new work is of my original, new Ottchil technique. The method was perfect to give life and texture to the bark of the trees.

Creator:
Rim Chae (1963, Korean)
Creation Year:
2017
Dimensions:
Height: 28.35 in (72 cm)Width: 18.9 in (48 cm)Depth: 4.73 in (12 cm)
Medium:
Gold,Silver,Lacquer,Wood Panel
Movement & Style:
Abstract Expressionist
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU68332780843