Hence shows like Myungjin Song's. I'm interested in how a Korean artist gets noticed by a Houston gallery. But more interesting, in the end, is the art itself. The pieces in this show look like close-up depictions of cloth or a rug or else aerial views of landscapes. The color is invariably green--indeed, her bio says she has an "obsession with chrome oxide green."
![Chromium Oxide Green](http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww172/RWBoyd_2009/ChromiumOxideGreen.jpg)
Chrome oxide green courtesy of Golden Artist Colors
![Myungjin Song](http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww172/RWBoyd_2009/FoldingSurface1.jpg)
Myungjin Song, Folding Surface I, acrylic on canvas, 2010
Obsessed is the word for it. Except for the red dots, the blue-white "string," and the black and gray shading, this could be a painting in chrome oxide green right out of the tube. In fact, I wounder if that was how she began it--a flat monchrome surface, onto which she glazed the folds and painted the dots.
The result it something that looks like a bunched-up piece of green fabric, occupying the entirety of the picture plane. However, it can also be seen as an aerial photograph of some green hills--the folds here look very much like geology at work. This ambiguity is present in most of the works in this show.
![Myungjin Song](http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww172/RWBoyd_2009/AFoolishStepII.jpg)
Myungjin Song, A Foolish Step II, unique digital print, 2010
Here, the ambiguity is threefold. My first thought, when I saw this, was that it was a picture of a grassy lawn. But then I noticed the little grid in the corner and that each pair of blades was stitched to the grid. In short, this was a somewhat abstracted hook-rug. But wait, there is white thing in the middle that on closer examination turns out to be a parachute.
And in the lower right, the parachutist shows up as a ghostly, partially-rendered figure.
![Myungjin Song](http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww172/RWBoyd_2009/AFoolishStepIIdetail.jpg)
Myungjin Song, A Foolish Step II detail, unique digital print, 2010
So are we looking at a rug, a lawn, or a jungle? Or is it better just to think of these as 2-dimensional compositions in chromium oxide green? I like the ambiguity and like these pieces a lot.
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