After spending nine years in Vancouver, I’ve moved back my home country, Korea. I’ve been here about a month now, and slowly settling into the new life. Looking for a studio space hasn’t been an easy task… After a few un-successful attempts, I’ve decided to set up a temporary work area at home in hopes that taking my time will yield in finding a better space at the end.

In other news, my things are supposed to arrive this afternoon! Although I bought some new supplies here, it will be nice to have familiar paints and brushes with me.. not to mention my bike!

I’ve been eyeing these Red Wing Iron-ranger boots for a while. Decided to finally get them before heading back to Korea. It’s gonna take a little getting used to because I haven’t really worn boots since I left the army 9 years ago.

The 26th was the opening night for my 2 person show with Jackie Dives at Kafka’s. It was a great evening shared with some of my close, supportive and overall amazing friends. Here are some photographs from that night. That first photo is not Jackie… I forgot to take one with her…

My friends Anna and Mike. Not sure why Mike’s sniffing that scarf…

Me and Eileen. She was my designated photographer for the night.

The show will be up for the next five weeks or so. If you get a chance go check it out. I will post some photos from the set-up night – better images of the work and the space.

[ Kafka's ]

A process video of an amazing lino-cut tour poster by the Avett Brothers.

I go through a lot of pencils.

In other news, I’m in a group show at the Cafe for Contemporary Arts in North Vancouver. That last photo is of the piece I finished last night – and yes, it’s going to be in the show tonight. If you’re in town, join me for some wine, desserts and maybe even some conversation (if I’m not too drunk by the time you show up).

[ Not quite sugarplums : (Silas Borsos x Kyu Hwang) Justine Cheung ]

A lazy Thursday afternoon.

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Travis Millard‘s works. Needless to say, I was excited to wake up this morning and find “Los Angeles I’m Yours” had posted an interview with Travis. The blog “Los Angeles I’m Yours” focuses on – you guessed it – LA based art, design, lifestyle and culture, so the interview focuses on Travis’ sentiments on working out of LA. However, you get an insight into how his art career has developed, and the photographs showing his work space are, for the lack of a better word, simply awesome. Go check out the interview here.

[ Los Angeles I'm Yours ] & [ Fudge Factory Comics ]

Last weekend was the Eastside Culture Crawl. I had a lot of fun meeting hundreds of people, talking about art, whales and clouds. The turnout was amazing despite the cold weather. I wish we had a couple more events like these in the city.

Andrea‘s wall was super rad as always :

Angelica, my other studio-mate, had some awesome landscape paintings :

We also had a wall showcasing our prints :

Now I’m inspired and full of new ideas. Time to work even harder I guess.

I’ve been working on some small drawings.

In other news, I’ll be opening up my studio space at the Eastside Culture Crawl(Nov 18 ~ 20). If you’re in town, come say hi! You can meet my studiomates, Andrea Wan & Angelica Jang as well.

Beautiful paintings by Finnish artist, Jaakko Mattila.