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The Korean artist Jong Oh (b. 1981) creates minimal sculptures that respond to the given spatial situation. Oh describes this process as follows: “Responding to a site’s nuanced configuration, I build spatial structures by suspending Plexiglas and painted strings in the air. These elements connect or intersect with one another, depending on the viewers’ perspectives. Viewers walk in and around these paradoxical boundaries constituted by three-dimensionality and flatness, completion and destruction. The viewers’ experience becomes a meditation on perception’s whim.”

In these compositions, Oh makes use of a limited selection of materials: string, fishing line, Plexiglas, and wooden rods. The strings are sometimes painted on one side and are thus visible from one side only or almost entirely invisible. By constantly arranging these materials anew, Oh adds the suggestion of additional dimensions to the three-dimensional space. Lights and shadows extend these configurations by offering visual effects so that the highly fragile works resemble optical illusions of falling perspectives. In this dialogue of lines and planes, Oh is testing the limits of visibility. The works require an increased awareness of delicate oscillations and variations. Jong Oh is thus clearly making a case for an attention to small details, especially in the hectic bustle of everyday life. In a highly formal language that is almost completely free of narrative moments, Oh appeals above all to the viewers’ experience of the world. Alternating between sculpture and intervention, intangible image and installation, Oh considers each of his works as a carefully composed visual poem: “The works become subtle and restrained visual poems. Each only a few lines long, but addressing the universal.”

Jong Oh earned his BFA from Hongik University in Seoul and eventually his MFA from School of Visual Art in New York. In 2018, he had a solo exhibition in Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, and was in a two-person exhibition “Sculpting With Air” in deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, US; and “Every Day Is A Good Day” in SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan. he is included in the group exhibition “Point Counter Point” at Art Sonje Center in Seoul. In 2016 he had a solo exhibition at the University of Connecticut Art Galleries. In 2014-5 he has had solo exhibitions at Krinzinger, Austria; Jochen Hempel, Leipzig; and MARSO, Mexico City. In 2014 he won a competition to create a large scale public installation along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. Jong Oh is represented by MARC STRAUS in New York and Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain.

Oh talks about his philosophy and process in this video.

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Selected Works
2021
Wood, paint, metal rod, string, billiard ball.
59.5 x 25.5 x 14 in. -  Marc Straus Gallery
Line Sculpture #21

2021
Wood, paint, metal rod, string, billiard ball.
59.5 x 25.5 x 14 in.

2021
Wood panel, paint, metal rod, chain. -  Marc Straus Gallery
Folding Drawing #33

2021
Wood panel, paint, metal rod, chain.

2019. Wood panel, paint, pencil line, metal rod, blade line, shadow. 
8.7 x 6.7 x 5.5 in -  Marc Straus Gallery
Folding Drawing #20

2019. Wood panel, paint, pencil line, metal rod, blade line, shadow.
8.7 x 6.7 x 5.5 in

2021
Metal rod, chain, string, fishing wire, paint, beads.
47.5 x 23.5 x 10 in. -  Marc Straus Gallery
Line Sculpture (cuboid) #43

2021
Metal rod, chain, string, fishing wire, paint, beads.
47.5 x 23.5 x 10 in.

2019. Wood panel, paint, pencil line, metal rod, shadow.
8.3 x 7 x 3 in. -  Marc Straus Gallery
Folding Drawing #21

2019. Wood panel, paint, pencil line, metal rod, shadow.
8.3 x 7 x 3 in.

April 20, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts  -  Marc Straus Gallery
Sculpting With Air Installation

April 20, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts

April 20, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts  -  Marc Straus Gallery
Sculpting With Air Installation

April 20, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts

April 20, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts -  Marc Straus Gallery
Sculpting With Air Installation

April 20, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts

April 20, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts -  Marc Straus Gallery
Sculpting With Air Installation

April 20, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts

2016
String, paint, graphite
43 x 24.5 x 25.5 inches
(110 x 62 x 65 cm)
 -  Marc Straus Gallery
Line Sculpture 18

2016
String, paint, graphite
43 x 24.5 x 25.5 inches
(110 x 62 x 65 cm)

2016
Metal rod, string, pencil line, chain glass
55 x 36 x 6.5 inches
(140 x 91.5 x 16.5 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Line Sculpture #14

2016
Metal rod, string, pencil line, chain glass
55 x 36 x 6.5 inches
(140 x 91.5 x 16.5 cm)

2016
Inkjet print, aluminum plate, paint, chain, string, fishing wire, weight
90 x 78 x 36 inches (228.6 x 198.1 x 91.4 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Surface Water #4

2016
Inkjet print, aluminum plate, paint, chain, string, fishing wire, weight
90 x 78 x 36 inches (228.6 x 198.1 x 91.4 cm)

2016
Fishing wire, string, metal rod, paint
45.5 x 21.5 x 11.5 inches (115.6 x 54.6 x 29.2 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Line Sculpture #13

2016
Fishing wire, string, metal rod, paint
45.5 x 21.5 x 11.5 inches (115.6 x 54.6 x 29.2 cm)

2016
Inkjet print, aluminum plate, string, paint
40 x 29 x 3.5 inches (101.6 x 73.7 x 8.9 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Surface Water #3

2016
Inkjet print, aluminum plate, string, paint
40 x 29 x 3.5 inches (101.6 x 73.7 x 8.9 cm)

2016
String, fishing wire, metal rod, weight, paint
97 x 17 x 17 inches (246.4 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Column (Brass)

2016
String, fishing wire, metal rod, weight, paint
97 x 17 x 17 inches (246.4 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm)

2014
Plexiglass, thread, metal rod, chain, paint, pencil line
77 x 39 x 18 inches (195.6 x 99.1 x 45.7 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Golden Cholla

2014
Plexiglass, thread, metal rod, chain, paint, pencil line
77 x 39 x 18 inches (195.6 x 99.1 x 45.7 cm)

2013
Plexiglas, string, fishing wire, chain, paint, pen line
95 x 76 x 44 inches (241.3 x 193 x 111.8 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Composite 5

2013
Plexiglas, string, fishing wire, chain, paint, pen line
95 x 76 x 44 inches (241.3 x 193 x 111.8 cm)

2013
Wood, string, weight, paint, pencil line
130 x 22 x 10 inches (330.2 x 55.9 x 25.4 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Composite 2

2013
Wood, string, weight, paint, pencil line
130 x 22 x 10 inches (330.2 x 55.9 x 25.4 cm)

2013
Nail, string, metal rod, paint, pencil
42 x 72 x 22.5 inches (106.7 x 182.9 x 57.2 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Line Sculpture 5

2013
Nail, string, metal rod, paint, pencil
42 x 72 x 22.5 inches (106.7 x 182.9 x 57.2 cm)

2013
Wood, string, paint, metal rod
74 x 33 x 34 inches (188 x 83.8 x 86.4 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Line Sculpture 7

2013
Wood, string, paint, metal rod
74 x 33 x 34 inches (188 x 83.8 x 86.4 cm)

2013
Wood, string, paint 
60 x 25 x 58 inches (152.4 x 63.5 x 147.3 cm) -  Marc Straus Gallery
Line Sculpture 6

2013
Wood, string, paint
60 x 25 x 58 inches (152.4 x 63.5 x 147.3 cm)

Exhibitions
Jong Oh

September 8 - October 16, 2018

Jong Oh

January 10 - February 26, 2016

On Deck

July 11 - August 23, 2013

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