First Snow in East Village
“In ”First Snow in East Village (2021)”, an Asian woman in a hanbok, traditional Korean attire worn by women and men, is taking a walk on a snowy day, with two parakeets perched on her hand. Large, crystalline snowflakes fall to the ground. The woman is on the painting’s far left side, framed between two trees. In front of her is a row of bare bushes; beyond the trees is a chain link fence, and past that, colored tenement buildings of different sizes. The tension between freedom (walking alone) and seclusion (she is framed on all sides) is a recurring theme in Han’s work. The painting offers no sense of where the woman is coming from or where she is going, which seems a perfect metaphor for the world Han inhabits.” John Yau, Long Live Life’s Little Moments. Sally J. Han’s paintings are at once cryptic and straightforward, inaccessible and yet meticulously laid out.”
October 26, 2022
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Sally J. Han
First Snow in East Village, 2021, Acrylic on paper mounted on wood panel 48 x 60 in 121.9 x 152.4 cm
Sally J. Han
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Jingmei "Sally" Han was born in China and raised in South Korea, she then moved to New York where she received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2016) with a Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship. In 2019 she received an MFA with an emphasis on drawing at the New York Academy of Art. Her first solo exhibition in New York was at Fortnight Institute in January 2020; in September 2021, she had a solo presentation with Fortnight Institute at the Independent Art Fair. She has participated in selected group exhibitions at the FLAG Art Foundation, 303 Gallery, and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, NY. Upcoming exhibitions for 2022 include Wonder Women at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, Pictus Porrectus: Reconsidering the Full-Length Portrait, curated by Alison M. Gingeras and Dodie Kazanjian, Art & Newport Foundation, Newport, Rhode Island, Taxonomies of Imagination curated by Andrew Sendor at Make Room, Los Angeles, and The Power to Dream at Hussenot Gallery in Paris