$338
My paintings begin with small and large events from everyday life. It might be watching a sunset, playing a game with friends, or noticing a small fallen leaf on the street. As I paint, the passage of time creates a distance from the original event, and the landscape may be reconstructed through that process. Once a painting is finished, I sand away parts of the entire surface, or sometimes the whole painting. This is an important part of my process. I continue the painting by following the scars created by the sandpaper, along with the colors and traces of earlier layers that happen to emerge. At times, I paint over the traces and scars left by the sanding as if they were light. It seems that the light I paint into these places comes to hold a certain wish for the future as well—a wish for a life whose direction and course I cannot know.
Artwork details+
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 22 cm x 22 cm x 4 cm
- Year
- 2025
- Signature
- signature on the back
- Edition
- Unique work
- Certificate
- Certificate of Authenticity issued by the gallery
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Sujeon Mae’s paintings begin with small, everyday events, such as moments spent with a friend or a fallen leaf discovered by chance on the street. For the artist, these experiences are not subjects to be simply reproduced, but seeds of images that are transformed and reconstructed through memory and emotion. Rather than the experience itself, she focuses on the feelings, desires, and memories through which she looks back on that moment from the present. After completing a painting, the artist sands away parts or the entirety of the surface, removing color and obscuring forms while revealing traces from earlier layers. Drawing and erasing thus become part of the same process of creating an image. Because the outcome of sanding cannot be fully controlled, the artist observes the traces that emerge by chance and sometimes redraws them as light. These revealed traces extend beyond memories of the past toward a sense of time that has yet to come. The light becomes a desire and a possibility—a quiet hope for the next scene, even while accepting that life may flow in an unknown direction. Her paintings hold layers of time in which images are drawn, erased, revealed, and drawn again, moving from small moments of everyday life toward the light of an unwritten future.
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Golden Hands Friends (GHF) is an art agency and gallery founded in 2018 by art dealer couple WooSung Lim and Sunyoung Kim, who come from backgrounds in advertising and architecture. As an art agency, GHF curates exhibitions and bridges artists’ intellectual property (IP) with businesses, events, social initiatives, and publishing projects. We also provide collection consulting for individuals and companies, artwork rentals, and art-based archiving services. At GHF Gallery in Gye-dong, we support artists through curated exhibitions and aim to foster a culture where art can be appreciated and collected by everyone. Our mission is to make artwork more accessible and to contribute to a vibrant art market. We believe that through art, everyone can become good friends. In the spirit of our name, Golden Hands—meaning “hands that save not only myself, but also those around me”—we hope the work we do lives up to what we stand for.
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My paintings begin with small and large events from everyday life. It might be watching a sunset, playing a game with friends, or noticing a small fallen leaf on the street. As I paint, the passage of time creates a distance from the original event, and the landscape may be reconstructed through that process. Once a painting is finished, I sand away parts of the entire surface, or sometimes the whole painting. This is an important part of my process. I continue the painting by following the scars created by the sandpaper, along with the colors and traces of earlier layers that happen to emerge. At times, I paint over the traces and scars left by the sanding as if they were light. It seems that the light I paint into these places comes to hold a certain wish for the future as well—a wish for a life whose direction and course I cannot know.
Artwork details+
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 22 cm x 22 cm x 4 cm
- Year
- 2025
- Signature
- signature on the back
- Edition
- Unique work
- Certificate
- Certificate of Authenticity issued by the gallery
Shipping & taxes+
- Ships from the gallery's location (set per work, defaults to the gallery address)
- Cost calculated at checkout by destination
- Optional full insurance in transit
- Usually ships within 10 business days, fine-art packed
- In-person pickup available for some works (no shipping fee)
- Listed price may include VAT applicable in the seller's country or the work's place of shipment
- Duties, import VAT/GST, customs fees, and other taxes in the buyer's country are not included and are the buyer's responsibility
- These are assessed by the destination customs authority and billed separately by the carrier
- Sales tax may be added at checkout depending on jurisdiction
$338