Recent paintings and drawings by contemporary Korean artist Min Jungyeon (b. 1979) were on show last month at the Hada Contemporary gallery.  The works fell broadly into two camps: large canvases in acrylics, very precise and in places very richly detailed, and smaller ink drawings of foam-related subjects – as in Mousse Destructrice, where a structure of girders and poles is broken apart by clouds of this foam-like substance. Organic forms contrast with more geometric or constructed ones, as in Travaux 2, where the realism of construction workers on a building site is off-set by a proliferation of strange biological forms, resembling layers of coral, or slices from a mammalian digestive system.  Her strengths as a technician are an essential part of the work, seen in the conscious choice of different pen strokes to create shade and substance – from very fine cross-hatching to a more cursive scribble.

Min Jungyeon Solo Exhibition
Hada Contemporary, London
7 to 31 March 2013