SALLY KO
Born 1971; Seoul, Korea
My focus is on color in its various shades, forms, textures, and spatial relationships. I am deeply moved by the work of Gustav Klimt, Frida Khalo, and Mark Rothko, recognizing their influence in my content, color theory, and style. My work is very personal in that I am performing "mental exercises" each time I approach a canvas. I am methodically working through the kinks in my mind; it could almost be called obsessive compulsive what I do with my paintings. They are orderly and repetitious. The paintings are expressive and free, but controlled and calculated at the same time. I am living out loud through these paintings, but through careful consideration.
People have commented that the shapes and forms in my paintings look like cells dividing. They are that, though they can be much more than that. There is no definitive answer to what I am doing, there is no end result, there is only an experience, a process, a journey.