How Korean painter Sihyeon Park captures Vuja de—seeing the familiar as if for the first time

Sun, moon, and desert plants rendered with a Korean lens, inviting you to see America anew

Sihyeon Park at the LA art fair earlier this year. Recent presentations of her work include Gallery YU, the Encinitas Community Center,

Traditional Korean painting meets Californian landscape in Sihyeon Park’s quietly radical practice. Working on Hanji with mineral pigments and glue, she maps the sun, moon, and everyday motifs of her life in the U.S. thr…