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LAURA WESTBY
Jung Rhee Shim
January 3 - 26, 2013
RECEPTION: JANUARY 5, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
LAURA WESTBY
"and The Sea Shall Speak"
Paintings
Laura Westby lives and works out of her art studio just a few miles outside of Manhattan.
An artist her entire life, she's exhibited numerous times in the city. As part of the New York art community
and gallery scene, she works with galleries and many known artists who rely on her ingenuity, skills and her
wonderful, authentic personality.
These genuine qualities shine innately from within her mostly abstract paintings. Her decisive yet delicate
color palette and direct compositions evoke those peripheral American places that are somehow everywhere
and nowhere but reassuringly familiar. The ordinary places that peacefully stir with an atmosphere that might
remind us we're homeward bound. Her paint application possesses physical grace and a poetic gentleness.
The indomitable Laura also trains for and powers through, running the NYC marathon every year. A dynamic
spirit and artist. Please join us on Saturday, January 5th, from 4 - 6 PM to meet the artist.
Jung Rhee Shim
The Image of Time-The Light of Being
Digital Photograph
In her continuous search for the nature of Being, Shim Jung Rhee has explored various possibilities in which man,
nature, and technology can encounter and interact as essential elements to form a unified world. She addresses
the concept of time referring to human mortality and a yearning for eternity. The strife between human desire to
avoid mortality and assertive decision to face it comes into focus in her recent work employing mirror images. The
images of simple nature, objects, and surroundings seem to urge the viewer to return the simplicity of nature in
order to restore our spiritual home, lost in the course of the development of modern technology.
Jung Rhee Shim lives and works in Korea. She is a Professor of Art in the Painting Department at Hong-Ik
University, Seoul, Korea
www.huniv.hongik.ac.kr/~sh
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