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Reviews
While viewing the wondrous luminosity of Ms. Shyun Song's recent paintings, the thought quietly occurred that her vertical and horizontal abstract segments, while offering illusory distance and poetic wonderment, are skillfully reduced to an elemental importance of five, seven or six perfect tones behaving as processions of light up or down or expansively across her thoughtful worlds. BRAVO!
William Scharf
April 2007
Shyun Song's paintings call gently to their viewers.
They are whispered abstractions, abstraction without description but, they fascinate as elegant syllables would in softly painted poems. She does not try to shock with frightful weather or brazened gestures, nor to beguile with the charm of flowers. Paint reaches her canvas as a rich mist of tints to play in melting air.
A possible vagueness of boundaries teases uncertainty, but the breathing colors that seem stained anew reward our attentions again and again.
William Scharf
May 2005
Shyun Song uses nature's basic, yet brilliant scenery in paintings that seek out existential truths. Her work depicts broad horizons, big skies, bodies of water, and landforms. She takes in an endlessly inspired collection of scenes and releases them onto her canvas in simple thin renderings that quickly freeze the moment in time and leave a painterly record of poetic process. She conveys the ethereal atmosphere of numinous land and time. Her scenes are placeless horizons into which the viewer may psychologically transcend. With clean flowing lines and slow shifting color, she conjures up meditative respites. Soft and sophisticated, her succinctly composed naturescapes color notions of reality. She suggests optimism and evangelizes the sublime. Through capturing what is beautiful in nature, yet at times shrouded in layers of atmospheric ambiguity, she shows that only a small amount of information is necessary to instill perceptual awe.
Van Stokes
October 2004
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