What is art? I believe art communicates visual and aesthetic spirituality to humans. The current world we live in is surrounded by complex networks causing itself pressure and fatigue.How then does my work function as art?I wish my work could console and comfort or resonate in in some kind of way within someone.They say the more the merrier, but the inundant images and information drive towards the byproduct of discomfort and chaos.Small and scarceness, plain simplicity, loneliness by onself. These are some terms I wish to pursue.To realize such thoughts and stories, I've chosen jade as my material. I slowly complete the work by taking away and restraining what I want to say. The language conveyed and the way it holds it self. And I look. Written by Artist Park Hyo Jeong Green Composition, ChunCheon Jade, Marble, Wood, 32x20.7x5.5(cm) (2018) From the Fruits, Jade, Marble, Bronze, 22x57x4.5(cm) Green Container 2018, Jade, Marble, 23.5x17.5x10.5(cm) The scenery of Jade - Winter, Jade, Marble, Wood, 51.5x22x7.5(cm) (2018) In the Enchanted Garden of Park Hyo-Jeong Park Hyo-Jeong compares her work to the garden. Sculptor Park prefers to use the minimal and geometric figures, but a finished work is not too far from the shape of the nature because of the rounded endings and irregular lines of branches of a tree. Her garden, which is artificially created by touch of the artist, represents and follows the law of the nature.First of all, she uses the products from the nature, which are wood, iron, and clay. She cuts a tree stump with achisel to create a cushion-sized seed and sometimes polishes a rectangular tree pole with a sand paper. Then, finely polished pine tree pole is connected to the side of quadrilateral bronze. A work itself creates the shape of keomunko, the Korean traditional harp, which has a bronze head.On the surface of wood, an annual ring spreads out as rippling waves on the calm water and the pattern repeats gently on the fire cast bronze. This abstract work is consisted of rectangular wood pole and square metal. It resembles a play of duck and drake on the water. Also, it reminds of an echo of light pebble. The main medium of her work can be thought of water and wood. And, she brings up the form of visualization and an auditorial resonance within her work. Park crops wood and scoops up bronze as if she creates the vibes of keomumko. White Flowers & Fruits, Bronze, Stone, 70x70x155(cm) detail Park Hyo-Jeong has started to use clay recently. Her ceramics, which are well rounded and show a great volume, are completed with a natural and naive finishing technique. To make the ceramics look natural, she bakes them when they are simply glazed. Park expresses her satisfaction on the accentuated expansions of ceramic when it is reversed rather than its' thin edges. The meaning of space in her ceramic works began to consolidate its function of container. Ceramics usually initiate the starting point of the civilization. The history of Mankind began with creation of creators and barrels to use them in the primeval life. If the space of ceramics can be compared to the matrix of culture of the mankind, than that means Parks' works strengthen the meaning of space within the nature as well as mankind did. Park Hyo-Jeong's works are stabilized with the frame of five elements : wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Her garden works, which have those five elements from the nature, are a harmonious space where lives live. A tree burns itself to create fire and the fire burns down everything to make them return to earth. Earth protects iron not to break and metal makes the water to let it flow away. The water provides nutrition to a tree on the ground to grow up. Thus, a tree saves fire, fire helps earth, and than earth holds iron. Than again, iron makes the water, and water saves a tree. Park practices this theory of harmonious repetition in her works. White Wind & Green field, Marble, Zelkovatree, 14.5x14.5x110(cm) Enchanted Garden 1701, Bronze, 110x110x32(cm) A space within bronze or ceramic bowl creates a natural place for water to rest. In her work, metal is not a tool to shape the medium but a partner that exist in symbiotic relationship with wood, creating an environment for life. Within this space, water of life for a tree or plant can be placed. Greenish moss and lotus shade over Park's ceramic or bronze vessel will create a natural atmosphere that complements each other. Park's Garden is a perfect balance between art and the nature. All natural components of her garden are complements to the nature and its law. She calls her works a "standing garden". Her geometrically simplistic artwork is a reminder as if a feeling from a natural forest away from the artificial creation. Although her work is an artificial in its process, but the environment expressed as the result is the law and the beauty of the universe itself. Her garden is the space of matrix. It is the plants and seed of nature as well as the vessel that conceives and nourish them within its water of life. Written by Kwon Young-Jin (Curator, KeumsanGallery) Enchanted Garden, Bronze, Steel, 110x110x235(cm) Exhibition View 박효정 (19xx ~ )이화여자대학교 미술대학 조소과 동대학원 졸업 개인전2018 Botanical Dialogue (Gallery Art Link, Seoul, Korea)2013 A Landscape (Gallery Art Link, Seoul, Korea)The Second Garden (Gallery 조은숙 Art and Life Style. Seoul. Korea)Works from The J Ⅱ (Gallery Kaze. Osaka. Japan)2011 봄, 쓰여지다 2011전(도시갤러리. Busan. Korea)Works from The J(Gallery Art Link. Seoul. Korea)2010 봄, 쓰여지다(.Gallery 조은숙 Art and Life Style Seoul. Korea)Furniture in Sculpture(LVS갤러리. Seoul. Korea)2008 The serene answer (Gallery Art Link. Seoul. Korea)2007 서있는 정원 2007 (ESPACE GALERIE. Paris. France)The Spring (Gallery Kaze. Osaka. Japan)2006 시간의 비늘Ⅰ(노화랑, Seoul. Korea)2004 서있는 정원 2004 (21+Yo. Tokyo. Japan)2003 서있는 정원Ⅱ (Gallery Kaze. Osaka. Japan)2002 서있는 정원Ⅱ (금산갤러리. Seoul. Korea)대지로부터의 서신 (21+Yo. Tokyo. Japan)2001 서있는 정원 (금산갤러리. Seoul. Korea)서있는 정원 (Elizabeth Edward Fine Art. Palm Desert. CA. USA)서있는 정원 (Elizabeth Edward Fine Art. Laguna Beach. CA. USA)1997 물의 그늘 (갤러리 퓨전. Seoul. Korea)1996 비우기 혹은 채우기 (갤러리 2000. Seoul. Korea)1994 대지위의 물상의 이면 (문예진흥원 예술회관. Seoul. Korea)1991 청년미술대전 초대개인전 (청년미술관. Seoul. Korea) 그룹전 200여 회 이상 수 상1997 제6회 대한민국 미술대전 특선1993 제16회 중앙미술대전 우수상1992 동아미술대전 특선1991 제6회 서울현대조각 공모전 우수상1990 제8회 청년미술대상 대상 Art FairKorea, Toronto, Palmspring, Beijing, Shanghai, Busan, Daegu, Chicago, Tokyo, Hamton, Huston, Miami, Art Central Hong Kong, Basel 작품소장경기도 성남시 분당 율동공원 3.1운동 기념탑 당선 및 설치장성 조각공원 당선 및 설치현대, 대림, 삼성래미안, 삼호APT 조형물 설치루비나 부띠크 사옥국립현대미술관제주 조각공원홍콩 Conrad Hotel홍콩 Marco Polo HotelTokyo Hilton HotelTokyo SHISEIDO GalleryOsaka Kaze GalleryTokyo 21+yo Gallery베이징 University일본, 홍콩, 상하이, 북경, 토론토, 뉴욕, 캘리포니아, 파리, 런던, 독일 등 개인소장 강의경력 서울예고, 전남대, 이회여대 및 동 대학원국민대 및 동 대학원, 한양대 건축과 출강 작가홈페이지https://www.parkhyojeong.com/