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Under the Pink

Filed Under Art Fart 

Cover Girls Sunny Choi

Former Canadian fashion designer, Sunny Choi, has moved onto the visual arts. Choi’s impressive fashion illustrations are on view at her Queen West gallery. The works are ethereal, romantic, layered, and full of narrative.

Working with oils on canvas, Choi’s brushstrokes around her female models feel like the running thread between her paintings, context coming out of focus, life taking on some activity–almost as thoughtful (and bold) chaos.

Choi’s portraits and profiles capture elusive expressions. There is an element of seduction and beauty behind the Cover Girls portrayed, without making them too pretty or relevant on the surface only.

Surrounded by the threads, wisps and spots of paint, the Girls take on a myth like quality. The female models come to life as believable-fictional characters. In some instances they are the nymph in the forest, among flitting butterflies, and in others, attending a very VIP cocktail party, aglow, creating metaphorical butterflies in their presence.

In all, Choi’s works are a celebration of the female form, colour, and painting–the sections where Choi allows the paint to “be the paint,” framing areas where Choi controls the paint to create form. The very places where clothing melds into the environment and the environment melds into clothing. More than Choi’s world (depicted and lived). More like Choi’s infinite creative sensibility.

This December will mark Choi’s one-year anniversary in the art world. Judging from the works made, and the new collections she is dreaming up, I’d say that Choi has had a pretty good year. May she have many more. Congrats.

IMAGE | Sunny Choi | Cover Girls | 36″ x 48″ | Lacey in Mauve

Comments

4 Responses to “Under the Pink”

  1. jack atkin on November 23rd, 2008 5:24 pm

    well written - Sunny loved it too.

  2. admin on November 23rd, 2008 6:10 pm

    Thank-you. Continued success, always.

  3. Jean on January 2nd, 2009 6:20 pm

    Great article. Best Wishes for continued success.

  4. admin on January 2nd, 2009 6:27 pm

    Thank-you Jean. That means a lot to me; especially since I’m trying to figure out how to write, and if I could ever be a “writer.” Best to you, and Happy New Year, Natalie.

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