Aside from “Please don’t touch,” it’s rare to see a warning posted in an art gallery. Perhaps, though, there should be more. For example, the exhibition of Oonju Chun this month as Phillips might fare better if there were a sign advising the viewer not to read the […]
During lunch at Kyoto, painter Oonju Chun asks, “Why do we say, ‘If I were . . .’ instead of ‘If I was . . .?”’ — one of those nitpicky English questions a writer hates to answer with “Ummmm . . .“ * But does. So, it […]
For February we’re asking Utah artists about a specific piece of art or artist, living or not, local or global, that has sparked their curiosity or influenced their work. We’ll be running some of their responses throughout the month. The question of “Who Do You Love?” takes on […]
Associated locally with Phillips Gallery and Terzian Galleries in Park City, Oonju Chun has also done a residency at Maynard Dixon’s home in Mt. Carmel. It’s pretty much agreed that this abstract artist, who has painted full-time for about five years on large canvases in a loose, painterly […]
“Modernism, that is the ‘mainstream’ evoked by the history of books—the most coherent version of which is Clement Greenberg’s, but there are others—is seen as progressing in a straight line from Manet to abstract expressionism and beyond. The modernist interpretation of modern art, which is an extraction that […]
Oonju Chun, who has resided in the United States for over 40 years, is firmly anchored in her Korean roots, which gently infuse her work. She approaches painting as an intuitive action, free from agendas or predetermined concepts, letting the art emerge as a direct expression of a […]
