Sungyong Hong

SungYong Hong started his creative career as a photographer, using the camera to record images around him. His development in technique and imagery evolved, leading him to interests in optics, science, computer technologies and printing methods. As is often the case, the road he set out upon led him in directions he may not have planned at the outset. Hong has arrived at a body of work that relates strongly to the Op-Art movement of the 1960s and its current resurgence in contemporary art. In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art presented “The Responsive Eye,” an exhibition of works that focused on optical illusions and the perceptual possibilities in relationships of certain colors. The Op-Art movement was born and grew to include important modern artists like Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly. Like these earlier artists, Hong's work explores the relationships of color, depth of field and the inherent possibilities and limitations in two-dimensional works. In his series, "Heuristic" and his earlier group of works titled Noise & Darkness on exhibition at LYNN Fine Art Gallery, Hong delves into explorations of the way the brain records images. Hong states that part of his work is an attempt to explore the visions that exist beyond the eye's capacities.

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