Ju Tae Seok

Ju Tae Seok was born in Daegu and graduated from the College of Fine Arts and Graduate School of Hongik University. He has had several solo exhibitions in Korea and Japan, including the Korean Drawing Competition (1981, Brooklyn Museum), Korea-Japan Contemporary Painting Festival (1982, Fukuoka Museum of Art, 1990, National Museum of Contemporary Art), India Triennale (1985, New Delhi), and present. ㆍSangsang Exhibition (1986), Asian Contemporary Art Festival (1986, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum), Korean Contemporary Artists Exhibition (1989, S.B.A.C Center, Paris), Cagne International Painting Festival (1992), Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition (13 European Countries, 1998), etc. participated in the group exhibition.

His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Ho-Am Art Museum, Hongik University Museum, and the National Assembly Building. After working as a professor at the Department of Painting at the College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, he retired and returned as a full-time artist.

The ‘Trailway’ series, which he focused on in the 1980s, drew attention as a typical hyper-realistic painting style in the Korean art world, showing the intellectual and conceptual aspects of modern painting. After the railroad tracks, he has been focusing on trees in a series of ‘nature images’, and it seems that he sees them as objects to be protected and restored rather than nature as his hometown. In ‘Nature-Image’, there are solid trees and forests and lyricism with captivating colors. The artist suggests looking at the invisible 'beyond' rather than showing it.

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