18" x 24", canvas Theme - CANDY (Audience Pick)

About the Artist

Jace Junggyu Kim is a Canadian painter based in Surrey and Burnaby, BC. He was born and raised in Korea until the age of 15. He graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a bachelor’s degree in Media art (animation). He worked in various game and motion graphic companies as a digital artist / animator, but he made a passionate transition to become a traditional painter.

Creating most of the tension between the figurative and the abstract, his expression on canvas arises from the meeting and combination of various artistic materials; oil, acrylic, ink, spray paint, etc. An abstract chaos capable of giving rise to an emotional overlap plays as a background to the purity and refinement of the portraiture depicted with skillfully obsessive and expressive brush strokes.

He wishes to continuously transcend as a contemporary artist with his distinctive ambidextrous style and techniques. His left hand is masculine and expressive, opposing to his right that is feminine and articulated. When he paints with them simultaneously, he becomes most sensitively artistic within the struggle and harmony in the conflict.