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Sohyun L. K. Arts
Archive
A collection of selected exhibitions, awards, publications, press features, and moments from my artistic journey.
Press & Publications
eARTh, Las Vegas Artists Guild
June 2014
Summer Rain featured on the front cover.
June 2014
Summer Rain featured on the front cover.
Pale Horse, 2024
Acrylic on canvas · 48 × 36 in
From the Abstract Nature series
From the Abstract Nature series
'Freed' by Sohyun L. K (Author)
Publication date - August 22, 2019
About the Book: Most heart touching collections of poetry of the year. Author's personal experience reflects throughout the poems. This book describes the human's emotional sufferings with simple but powerful words that providing healing ultimately and guiding to pearls of wisdom.
About the Arts:
The Freed series grew from my desire to move beyond wounds from the past and to find a sense of inner freedom. During this period, poetry and painting became forms of prayer—for myself, for my past, and for the parts of me that were still trying to heal.
Throughout the series, I repeatedly used a simplified fish-like form as a personal symbol. Over time, it became less an image of a fish and more a visual language for the self. Some forms are filled with color and weight, while others remain empty or transparent. The filled forms suggest memory, pain, emotion, and attachment; the transparent forms allow the world behind them to remain visible, as if the viewer could look through the self and into an inner landscape.
I did not want these paintings to describe objects. I wanted them to express states of mind. The images needed to remain simple, almost elemental, while carrying spiritual and metaphysical meaning.
For me, abstraction was more difficult than representation. When painting what I saw, the subject gave me direction. In the Freed series, there was no external answer. Every symbol, line, space, and color had to come from within.
The repeated symbols became a kind of visual prayer—a way of returning to the same wounds, memories, and questions until they could be seen differently.
I was not trying to erase the past. I was trying to empty it of its power over me.
About the Book: Most heart touching collections of poetry of the year. Author's personal experience reflects throughout the poems. This book describes the human's emotional sufferings with simple but powerful words that providing healing ultimately and guiding to pearls of wisdom.
About the Arts:
The Freed series grew from my desire to move beyond wounds from the past and to find a sense of inner freedom. During this period, poetry and painting became forms of prayer—for myself, for my past, and for the parts of me that were still trying to heal.
Throughout the series, I repeatedly used a simplified fish-like form as a personal symbol. Over time, it became less an image of a fish and more a visual language for the self. Some forms are filled with color and weight, while others remain empty or transparent. The filled forms suggest memory, pain, emotion, and attachment; the transparent forms allow the world behind them to remain visible, as if the viewer could look through the self and into an inner landscape.
I did not want these paintings to describe objects. I wanted them to express states of mind. The images needed to remain simple, almost elemental, while carrying spiritual and metaphysical meaning.
For me, abstraction was more difficult than representation. When painting what I saw, the subject gave me direction. In the Freed series, there was no external answer. Every symbol, line, space, and color had to come from within.
The repeated symbols became a kind of visual prayer—a way of returning to the same wounds, memories, and questions until they could be seen differently.
I was not trying to erase the past. I was trying to empty it of its power over me.
LVAG- Group Exhibition
An Early Chapter
Sohyun L. K with one of her early abstract paintings at a group exhibition. During this period, her abstract work was continuously evolving, gradually finding its own language through texture, layered color, movement, and form.
Sohyun L. K with one of her early abstract paintings at a group exhibition. During this period, her abstract work was continuously evolving, gradually finding its own language through texture, layered color, movement, and form.
2025- Here Comes the Sun Art Show
Pastel
11 × 13 in ·
Selected for Here Comes the Sun, Las Vegas Artists Guild
11 × 13 in ·
Selected for Here Comes the Sun, Las Vegas Artists Guild
Gratitude, 2018
Second Place — Las Vegas Artists Guild Fall Show: Gratitude
2019- LVAG Halloween Arts Competition - Donate
First Place of the show
2019-Art Battle Las Vegas, Millennium Fandom Bar, Las Vegas
September 5, 2019
2019 — First Place Winner, Live Art Battle Competition
Galleria Art Expo, Galleria at Sunset, Henderson, Nevada
Press Coverage — Galleria Art Expo & Art Battle Las Vegas All-Star Series | BroadwayWorld, 2019
BroadwayWorld coverage of the 2019 Galleria Art Expo at Galleria at Sunset, featuring the Art Battle Las Vegas All-Star Series and champion-level artists from the Las Vegas art community.
2017 LVAG- Local Color Fall Show
Honorable Mention
'Pirate Queen Coloring Sotry Book' by Sohyun L. K (Author)
2019
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery - Group exhibition
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery - Group exhibition
Shades of Summer Show, 2014
First Place
Superstar, 2014
Pastel on Paper
Pastel on Paper
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