about Hea-Sook...
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 has a particular passion for innovative multi-media abstract paintings.
From 1996 to the present, Ms. Yoo has been evolving a series of expressionistic
pieces entitled "conversation." These works are multi-layered with the artist's
materials, colors and designs and they provoke a wide range of visceral response
and imaginative interpretations. The "conversation" is between artist and canvas,
but the viewer's connection varies from one person to the next. In this regard,
each work becomes a uniquely personal experience.
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. The series continues.
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