For
Korean
born
painter
Chungja
Moon, who
now makes
her home
in
Harrisburg,
PA, but
who
exhibits
her work
internationally,
art is
both a
personal
response
and an
open
invitation.
Each of
her
paintings
are
created in
response
to the
artist’s
deeply
personal
experience
through
Buddhist
mediation,
reflecting
what one
art critic
said was
her
ability to
“paint the
world that
is not
sensed by
human
sensory
organs.”
However
intensely
personal
her
experience
may be
though,
Chungja
Moon’s
intention
is also to
share it
as widely
as
possible
through
her
paintings.
“I would
like to
share life
energy and
do
mediation
together
with my
viewer to
get true
happiness
through
peace of
mind,” she
says. “Let
us see the
purity and
essence of
the object
[of her
art] from
the midst
of the
dirt of
earthly
life.”
A rare
mid-state
opportunity
to share
the
artistic
experience
of Chungja
Moon will
be
provided
when an
exhibition
of her
latest
work opens
at
Americas’
Arts
Gallery,
57
Chambersburg
Street in
Gettysburg,
PA, on
First
Friday,
November
5th. An
Opening
Reception
for
Chungja
Moon will
be held
that
evening
from 6:00
until 9:00
p.m., to
which the
public is
invited to
attend.
New York
Art
Critic, Ed
McCormack,
called
Chungja
Moon “one
of our
foremost
modern
visionares,”
when
referring
to a solo
show of
her work
in New
York
City’s
Amerasia
Bank
Gallery.
Moon, who
has
enjoyed
twenty
solo shows
in as many
years
between
New York,
Paris, and
Seoul,
moved to
Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania
this past
summer.
Her solo
show at
Americas’
Arts
gallery
began to
take shape
more than
a year and
a half
ago, when
she
visited
the
gallery
for the
first
time.
“Basically,
Chungja
Moon chose
me,” says
gallery
owner
Larry
Knutson.
“She
attended
several
shows we
had and
then
indicated
she would
like us to
show her
work. I am
deeply
honored to
exhibit
such a
fine
artist,
and I have
been very
pleased to
spend time
discussing
both her
work and
her
meditation
practices.”
Her show
at
Americas’
Arts will
run
through
December
31st,
which will
then be
followed
by her
next New
York show
at the
Ward-Nasse
Gallery in
Soho.
Both
Moon’s art
and life
reflect
her desire
to study
light,
energy,
and the
human
spiritual
world as
an
unsubstantial
world
between
the earth
and
universe.
Seoul art
critic,
Hang-Seup
Sin
describes
Chungja
Moon as “a
mystic or
a
physicist
who
abstracts
the beauty
that
appears in
phenomena
and its
relations.
She is
simply a
messenger
of
beauty.”
Moon, who
paints in
either
acrylic or
watercolor,
was
classically
trained in
Oriental
ink
painting.
In
addition,
she
studied
for
several
years with
Leo Manso
at the Art
Students
League in
New York
City. Her
Expressionist
style
shares a
close
kinship
with
artists
such as
Vincent
Van Gogh,
yet her
work has
also been
described
(again by
New York’s
McCormack)
as
reminiscent
of
Czechoslovakian
painter
Franz
Kupka.
Americas’
Arts
gallery
develops
and
manages
the art
exhibits
at the
Blue
Parrot
Bistro.
Americas’
Arts
gallery is
located at
57
Chambersburg
Street in
Gettysburg.
