"I humbly try to understand the world through my own experience and draw as much as I understand," Sungsic Moon says. In the exhibition aptly named Beautiful. Strange. Dirty. we find a delicate balance of line and color in various mediums such as gouache, oil paint, gesso, and pencil. The artist continues to use traditional Korean painting genres like landscapes and still life in displaying seven distinct bodies of work. He focuses on themes such as people, insects, and plants to better understand "attraction". He decides to focus on flowers as the embodiment of desire and how people and insects are bound to be attracted to it.
