About

YANG Okkyung Painter’s note

In my paintings, I tried to express the extension of boundaries, hybridity of culture and faith, by gathering objects which exist in different places, showing carps as nomadic creatures and self-consoling painter myself.
In Korea, the carp symbolizes success and achievement and the tortoise means of longevity in traditionally.
I always when I drew my paintings with the hope that those who own my paintings will live a long and healthy life in a successful life. Because their happiness is my happiness.
The basis of the academic theory of my works is based on the …