Jinsil Oh (b.1980)

    Jinsil Oh is a Korean folk painting artist based in South Korea. Although trained in traditional Korean painting, she brings the language of folk painting into the present by incorporating contemporary life, personal objects, and everyday imagery into her work. Her series, Blooming Structure: Afterglow, explores the density of emotions sedimented over time and the lingering afterglow that remains after significant events. Through motifs such as peonies, chaekgeori, vases, and everyday objects, the series reflects on memory, vulnerability, and emotional residue.

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    The chaekgeori paintings serve as a stage where the artist’s emotions are arranged—another kind of shelf that reflects who she is. Everyday objects and personal symbols, including an empty bottle, a cracked dish, toys, books, and art volumes, speak of joy and loss, unease and consolation. 

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    The vase paintings contain emotions within glass vessels. Faces hidden among petals, the curves of stems, and the traces of water and pigment bring vitality to the surface. Presented in both color and monochrome, these works reveal different textures of feeling.