Modernist Abstract Cast Paper Sculpture Textile Collage Wall Hanging

Dimensions: H: 21.25, W: 20.25 IN

Hea-Sook Yoo, artist, internationally renowned female artist, has her paintings hanging inresidences, 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, Hwa-Sook Yoo 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 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.