Sangsun Bae
Hwasun, South Korea, b. 1971
Biography
Sangsun Bae has been making two types of paintings: one type made using blueblack ink and charcoal on white surfaces coated with gesso mixed with the blue-black ink, and another type made by drawing countless fine lines of gesso using a fine-point brush on surfaces of black velvet in a way that brings out the jet-black color. These works have their origins in abstracted profile lines extracted from figure sketches, and they thus carry a rhythm of organic lines that relate to the bonds that are formed between lives and also to her current knotted forms. Bae, who started off by drawing people in order to better understand herself, eventually developed an interest in the very movements of people. While exploring her thoughts through delving into the questions of what it means to be human and what it means to live, she eventually began to focus on the subtle changes in the air that occur between two posing models set in the different combinations of woman-woman, man-man, or man-woman. Here lies an important concept of Bae, who has discovered the imperceptible and indefinite aura or energy generated and exchanged between people that constantly shifts in direction and strength.
Selected Works
Bloodline
2025 · Mixed media
Before form
2025 · Mixed media
Chasm of Time 2024-1
2024 · Gesso on velvet
Line’s echo 2023-5
2023 · Gesso on velvet
Time's Flowing Hole
2023 · Gesso on Velvet
Line’s echo 2023-6
2023 · Gesso on velvet
Time's Flowing two Holes
2023 · Gesso on Velvet
The Chandelier 5
2021 · Archival pigment print on paper
Echoing1-15
2021 · Jesso on velvet
Echoing16
2021 · Gesso on Velvet
More & Less 2020-03
2020 · Gold, powder on velvet
Curved line
2019 · Gesso, arcylic color on velvet
Echo holes ii (1)
2019 · Gesso on Velvet
Echo holes ii (2)
2019 · Gesso on Velvet
Layer of lines i
2019 · Gesso on Velvet
Echo hole ii
2019 · Gesso on Velvet
Rain 8
2019 · Gesso on Velvet
Waves ii
2019 · Gesso on velvet
Untitled_Panorama-1s
2019 · Gesso on velvet
Waves i
2019 · Gesso on velvet
Untitled_Panorama-2s
2019 · Gesso on velvet
Ever Expanding 1-2
2018 · Gesso on velvet
Ever Expanding 2-2
2018 · Gesso on Velvet
Rain 1
2018 · Gesso on velvet
Rain 3
2018 · Gesso on velvet
Rain 4
2018 · Gesso on velvet
Rain 5
2018 · Gesso on velvet
Ever Expanding
2018 · Gesso on velvet
Wind 2
2018 · Gesso on Velvet
Wind 1
2018 · Gesso on Velvet
Four Holes
2018 · Gesso on Velvet
The Chandelier 2
2018 · Archival pigment print, facemount
The Chandelier 6
2018 · Archival pigment print on paper
The Chandelier 1
2018 · Archival pigment print on paper
The Chandelier 7
2018 · Archival pigment print on paper
The Chandelier 4
2018 · Archival pigment print on paper
The Chandelier 3
2018 · Archival pigment print on paper
Ever Expanding 1-1
2018 · Gesso on Velvet
Ever Expanding 2-1
2018 · Gesso on velvet
Cloud 1
2014 · Gesso on Velvet
Gordian Knot 8
2012 · Charcoal and ink on canvas
Gordian Knot 7
2012 · Charcoal and ink on canvas
Gordian Knot 5
2011 · Charcoal and ink on canvas
String figure 1
2011 · Charcoal and ink on canvas
More & Less
2008 · Gesso on velvet