I think the first time I saw artwork by JooYoung Choi was in 2013 at the annual Big Show at Lawndale. Her piece in that exhibit was a large painting called Sacrifice of Putt-Putt. Looking back on it, one can see that Choi was using characters in a fictional scenario, and in her subsequent work, the use of characters and a fictional narrative becomes more prominent. What Choi (and other artists like her) do is create a fictional world or universe, inhabit it with characters who all have different physical appearances, personalities, and capabilities. I analogize it with such fictional universes as
Glimpses of the Cosmic Womb Universe
Glimpses of the Cosmic Womb Universe
Glimpses of the Cosmic Womb Universe
I think the first time I saw artwork by JooYoung Choi was in 2013 at the annual Big Show at Lawndale. Her piece in that exhibit was a large painting called Sacrifice of Putt-Putt. Looking back on it, one can see that Choi was using characters in a fictional scenario, and in her subsequent work, the use of characters and a fictional narrative becomes more prominent. What Choi (and other artists like her) do is create a fictional world or universe, inhabit it with characters who all have different physical appearances, personalities, and capabilities. I analogize it with such fictional universes as