AN JOON HEE
The exhibition title Filmujeon comes from the phrase “the brush dances.”
Junhee Ahn’s work, which can be described as calligraphic abstract expressionism, is created in a single breath—capturing the imagery that flashes through his mind with swift, instinctive brushstrokes. Above all, the roots of his practice can be traced to the ink-wash painting traditions of Namdo in southern Korea, where he was born and raised.
Art critic Yoon Jin-sup notes that what stands out most clearly in Ahn’s work is the release of qi that emerges through his long discipline with the brush. He also points out that the artist strips away the superfluous, expressing the essence of nature through concise structures and an intentional spontaneity.
Ahn gathers energy throughout his entire body and seizes the momentary feeling as if the brush were truly dancing. His movements are so agile that they resemble a fisherman who senses the slightest tug and instantly hooks the fish. The traces of his brushstrokes—unfolding across yellow, light green, and white grounds—ignite on the canvas. His restrained yet decisive strokes reveal the depth of training he has accumulated over the years.
'๋ถ์ด ์ถค์ ์ถ๋ค'๊ณ ํด์ ๋ถ์ธ ์ ์๋ช ์ด <ํ๋ฌด์ >.
์์ฒด ์ถ์ํํ์ฃผ์๋ก ๋งํ ์ ์๋ ์์คํฌ์ ์ํ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์ ๋ ์ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ์์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋น ๋ฅธ ํ์น๋ก ํ ํธํก์ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์๊ฐ๋ ์์ ์ด ํ์ด๋๊ณ ์๋ ํ๊ตญ ๋จ๋์ ์๋ฌต ์ ํต์์ ๊ทธ ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์ ์ ์๋ค. ์ค์ง์ญ ๋ฏธ์ ํ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์์คํฌ์ ์ํ์์ ๋๋ ท์ด ๋๋ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ถ์ ์๋ จ์ ํตํ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ์ฐ์ด๋ค. ๋ํ ๊ตฐ๋๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋์ด๋ด๊ณ ์์ฐ์ ์์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ช ํ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ๋ฌด์์์ ์์ง๋ก ํ์ด๋ด๊ณ ์๋ค. ์์คํฌ๋ ์ ๋ง ๋ถ์ด ์ถค์ด๋ผ๋ ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์จ๋ชธ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋๋์ ๋์์ฑ๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋์์ด ์ด์ฐ๋ ๋ ๋ ตํ์ง ๋ง์น ๋์๊พผ์ด ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ง์ ๊ฐ์งํ๊ณ ์๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์์ฑ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ๋ ๊ฐ๋ค. ๋ ธ๋, ์ฐ๋ ํฐ ๋ฐํ์์ ํผ์ณ์ง๋ ๋ถ์ง์ ํ์ ๋ค์ด ์บ๋ฒ์ค ์์ ์์ดํ๋ค. ์ผํ์ ์ ์ ๋ ํ์น๊ฐ ๊ทธ ๋์ ์์ ์๋ จ์ ๊น์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ผ๊ณ ํํ๋ค.
Education
Graduated from Art Education Det. Chun-nam University, Fine Art of Graduate school Hong-ik University
Solo Exhibition
2024 Sansok Lighthouse Art Museum Invitational
Exhibition (Wanju)
2024 G&J Gallery (Seoul)
2024 Invitational Exhibition by Gallery MIZ Gallery (Seoul)
2023 Invitational Exhibition by Gallery MIZ Gallery (Seoul)
2023 Invitational Exhibition by Gallery Artwall (Seoul)
2022 Invitational Exhibition by Art Muse Gallery (Seoul)
2018 G&J Gallery (Seoul)
2008 Invitational Exhibition by KEPCO Plaza Gallery
Invitational Exhibition by Ga San Gallery (Boon Dang)
2006 Incheon Educational Cultural for students Center
2000 Invitational Exhibition by Cambridge Gallery
(Kwang-ju)
Invitational Exhibition by Samsung plaza Gallery
(Boon Dang)
1995 Doll Gallery (Seoul )
HyunSan Gallery (Kwang-ju)
1993 Invitational Exhibition by Cambridge Gallery
(Kwang-ju)
1991 In-Jae Fine Art Center (Kwang-ju)
1983 Arab Museum ,(Seoul)
Paticipated in Invitational Exhibition and Group Exhibition 170 times