젠 박 Jen PAK

레고스케이프 시리즈로 잘 알려진 재미교포 작가 젠박의 작품은 현실을 초월한 상상의 세계에 대한 열망을 반영한다. 아크릴물감을 사용하여 캔버스 위에 자신만의 밝고 활기찬 도시를 건설한다. 최근에는 나무, 알루미늄, PVC 등의 다양한 매체를 사용한 실험적인 조각 작업을 병행하면서 창의적인 유토피아를 건설 하고자 하는 아이디어를 꾸준히 탐구하고 있다. 

Jen Pak (b.1985, NY) is known for her Legoscape series. (“Legoscape”—a combination of the words “lego,” “cityscape,” and “escape”) Her works reflect the artist’s desire to escape from reality to an imaginary, orderly world. As new buildings are erected and old ones demolished, she builds her own bright lively city on an empty canvas using acrylic paint. She continues to explore the idea of building a utopia by creating sculptures experimenting with different mediums. She works to create an intermediary between the real and the imagined space, characterized by color/ form interaction. Legoscape(-ing), an ongoing project, continuously gives new information and writes a new set of instructions as a new building is added. This idea reinforces the representation of an impermanent and transitory space, akin to the perpetual transformation of a cityscape, and more broadly, our fast-paced society.