"Viewing painting as a map of her internal experience, the artist embeds emotion into the landscapes themselves within the striations of the sky, jagged rock and shifting atmospheres. Figures appear as anchors or witnesses: sometimes they represent the artist, sometimes no one particular person at all. The works in Cognitive Dissonance emerge from a period of heightened cognitive and emotional tension shaped by political unrest in the U.S., global conflict, environmental catastrophe, and the persistence of connection, tenderness, and daily ritual."
"The exhibition moves between capturing a sense of urgency and restraint. Hong throws, scrapes, and pushes paint in moments of overwhelm, then slows into thin, delicate "quilted" washes applied with meditative precision. The artist draws a parallel to bojagi, the Korean textile tradition that pieces fragments into functional abstraction, an act of both rupture and repair. Scale operates as another emotional register: large works capture physical intensity, while smaller paintings return to the immediacy of her early studies on hardware store paint chips."
Seonna Hong presents introspective paintings that function as a visual journal and emotional terrain, tracing contemporary life through abstraction, landscape, and gesture. Painting operates as a map of internal experience, embedding emotion in striations of sky, jagged rock, and shifting atmospheres. Human figures act as anchors or witnesses, sometimes representing the artist and sometimes no one in particular. The works arose from heightened cognitive and emotional tension influenced by political unrest, global conflict, environmental catastrophe, and ongoing connection, tenderness, and daily ritual. Techniques alternate between aggressive gestures and delicate "quilted" washes, invoking bojagi's fragmentation and repair; scale varies to register different emotional intensities.
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