Cube Child Two
2022
Oil on Linen
29 in x 30 in
$880

ARTIST BIO:

Ma Nong's art is driven by her interest in her identity, her signature series favor cubes and diamonds, on both large and small scales, and in bold colors and imaginative formations. She is working on abstract figure paintings and mixed media.
She was born in South Korea, and she earned a B.F.A. Fashion Design at Ewha Women University in South Korea in 2006. She attended the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, earning her M.F.A. in Painting in 2013.
She has been living and working in South Florida for 12 years. She currently works at Arts Warehouse as a residency artist and art instructor at the Old School Creative in Delray Beach.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Ma Nong's art is driven by her interest in her identity, her signature series favor cubes and diamonds, on both large and small scales, and in bold colors and imaginative formations. She is working on abstract figure paintings and mixed media.
I am currently working, The "Someone" paintings are part of the Big Child Series. They are characterized by intense colors, and diamond shapes that create abstract figures. It is repetitive, straightforward work, the more you work, the more complex and difficult the task becomes.
I have developed a series of portraits, exploring signifiers of human nature. I represent my figures as children's dolls. With exaggerated heads and smaller torsos my figures represent a child-like vulnerability where the feelings of dread, loneliness, and weakness in the familiar/ unfamiliar world are conveyed. The square box shape I use represents home. The figure is centered, anchored, as if trying to root itself into the given frame. Dimensional crystalline shapes, which simultaneously create and break the form, symbolize complex units that both comprise and undermine identity. Color is bold and convincing, resembling that of nationality, yet it doesn't reveal true origin of the figure.

I am a nomad, Korean stranger when in Taiwan, Taiwanese stranger in Korea, and just a stranger in the US. I am interested in identity, inherited, acquired, ascribed.

The most important thing in my work is anguish about my identity. "We (all) are the people" It is my desire and passion for my creation to express that we all have equal values. In the process of seeing and feeling from all surrounding environments, large puzzles are put together one by one, and these experiences are fused and harmonized to be expressed as one work.

As a Taiwanese born in Korea, I moved to southern Florida, USA and lived for 12 years. We encounter strangeness and difference at every moment, but the sunlight, sky and green nature of subtropical culture always give warm inspiration. We hope that this will be compressed and symbolized in cubes in the work and will inspire you as well.

CONTACT THE ARTIST:
[email protected]
912-856-6002
IG: MaNongStudio
Web: MaNong.Link