Richard Allen

Four Corners 1

1987

Jae Hahn is a Korean-born artist living in Los Angeles. Known for abstraction and minimalism. She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree majoring in painting at UCLA in 1977. She spent her first 20 formative years in Korea, and the following 30 years in Los Angeles. Hahn’s search to find her own identity and cultural heritage resulted in studying Oriental philosophy, but more specifically, Taoism and Zen Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting, consolidating what she learned from all schools of masters. The first was about structure from cubism. Next were the dynamic color studies of Matisse, and third, the freedom of spontaneous gestural strokes found in Abstract Expressionism. During the late 1990’s, Hahn experienced her own Renaissance. Her paintings took on a new life, with more activity and interlocking positive and negative space, and varying textures (“folding”) and irregular shapes. This resulted in the Unfoldings series, which encompasses Hahn’s artistic attributes of color and form, surface layered depth of field, sculpture, geometry and structure. Jae's paintings are painted in varied tones of a single colour, and usually appear in the form of diptych, triptych or polyptych. The contents are patterns formed by lines such as a triangle, a diagonal, a cross or simply a horizontal line. Simplicity is indeed a quality that the artist intends to convey through her art. Following in the tradition of Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin and Robert Morris, Her work tends towards a luminous minimalist style. She has showed at Kelley Roy gallery alongside John Henry, Dolly Moreno and Sebastian Spreng. She has also shown at Seth Jason Beitler Gallery in Miami. Selected Individual Exhibitions Millenia Fine Arts, Orlando, FL Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Malibu Beach, CA Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL Boritzer/Gray/Hamano Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Seoul Club Exhibition, Seoul, Korea Claremont Graduate School - West Gallery, Claremont, CA Byucksan Museum, Seoul, Korea Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Indeco Gallery, Seoul, Korea Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA Selected Group Exhibitions "Zen Summer”, Thomas Lavin, West Hollywood, CA The Fall Show, Susan Street Fine Art, Solano Beach, CA "Faces and Figures", Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Malibu, CA Jae Hahn, Kathleen Keifer, Caroyl La Barge, Maggie Lowe Tennessen Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Las Angeles, CA "Surface, Color, Light", Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA Miami Art Fair, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL London Art Fair 2002, Mark Jason Gallery, London, England "Abstractly", Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA "Spring", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM "Contemporary Art Without A Mouse", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM "California Asian Women In Art", Fresh Paint Art, Culver City, CA "Summer Exhibition", Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea "Update 2000", Fresh Paint Art, Culver City, CA Pasadena Historical Architecture Showcase, Pasadena, CA "Korean Contemporary Art," University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming Five Persons' Show, Cline LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM "Korean Contemporary Art," Edwin Ulrich Art Museum, Wichita, Kan "Fall Exhibit" Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA "Paradise Lost-Abstraction after Modernism" Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA "Summer Exhibit" J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Korean Contemporary Art" The Cerrillos Cultural Center, Cerrillos, NM. "Essence in Purity" The Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. "Collector's Choice" Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL "Of Paint and Metal", Ken Elias Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL "Boom," T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL "New Beginnings Old Friends," Fresh Paint Fine Arts, Culver City, CA Triton Contemporary Art Fair, San Francisco, CA Cerrillos Cultural Center, Cerrillos, NM "Inauguration Opening Exhibition", View gallery, New York, NY "Abstraction and Essence", Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach "Simply Small", Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solona Beach, CA "Idea House" Project, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA Works on Paper L.A. 1995 Art Fair, Santa Monica, CA USART, Ft. Mason, San Francisco, CA The 9th International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA "Big Littles", Boritzer/Gray/Hamano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jae H. Hahn and Julia N. Chu, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA The 7th International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA Neo-Modernism by Five American Artists, Markant Gallery, Langelo, Holland Summer Group Show, Janus Gallery...

Gouache, pencil and collage on Japanese paper. Unframed. This gouache paint with collage on Japanese paper is a result of working with the accidental arrangements of found colored ...