07/22/2025
Commissioned privately for a collector in Philadelphia, this new work by artist Jinwon Chang extends his acclaimed Glory series, previously featured in the CAFA Museum exhibition Rituals of Repetition: Portals to Eternity.
The Glory series explores a radiant visual language that mirrors the expansion of Chang’s inner world—his heart opening to a realm of eternal light and a deeper way of seeing beyond the physical. Painted in the stillness of his studio floor, each piece emerges from a sacred, intuitive process. Layer by layer—sometimes as many as 40 or 50—Chang builds his compositions slowly and deliberately, allowing his consciousness to move in rhythm with the regenerative cycles of being.
Through this meditative approach, the work becomes a direct channel for what Chang calls “divine disclosure”—an unintentional but deeply felt transmission of spiritual presence, made visible through light and form.
Jinwon Chang was born in 1967 in Gwangju, South Korea where he studied fine art at Josun University and Joongang University in Seoul and received his MFA at New Paltz University in New York before moving to New York City in 2004. Chang learned in his native traditions and practices of Korean painting, his materials of choice were Sumi ink and Japanese pigments (Bunchae in Korean) on Hanji paper. Departing from traditional Korean brush techniques, Chang began to use a roller and squeegee with acrylic and charcoal for the following three years. Subsequently, he merged traditional Korean methods into his contemporary abstract process, employing sumi ink, acrylic, metallic paint, charcoal, and pigment pen on Hanji paper.
For information about Chang’s artwork or commission inquires, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]
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