Artist Talk: "Place We Find Ourselves" by Jennifer Ahn

Join us in person for an inspiring chat with Jennifer Ahn, as she dives into her work, "Place We Find Ourselves". Don’t miss this chance to hear firsthand about her creative journey and the stories behind her art. It’s an engaging event perfect for art lovers and curious minds alike. Come curious, leave inspired!

exhibit statement

In Place We Find Ourselves, Korean-born artist Jennifer Ahn invites us into landscapes that mirror the heart’s journey—through loss and renewal, wandering and return. Her semi-abstract terrains, layered with paper, pigment, and fragments of Hanji (traditional Korean paper), are at once intimate and expansive: spaces where memory, struggle, and resilience converge.

Forests, rivers, and hills in Ahn’s work become vessels of endurance, their textured surfaces and flowing gestures echoing the rhythms of grief, hope, and quiet transformation. Torn paper and embedded fabrics trace paths between fragility and strength, shadow and light, suggesting that healing is a layered, luminous process.

Drawing from her Korean heritage and personal experience, Ahn transforms nature into companion and witness. Her paintings do not depict home as a fixed place but as a state of being—a sanctuary found in reflection, in the tactile richness of materials, and in the silent resilience of the world around us.

Continuing the inquiry of her 2022 exhibition Desolation | Consolation, Place We Find Ourselves is a meditation on impermanence, renewal, and the subtle, enduring beauty of becoming whole. Here, landscapes are not merely seen—they are felt, guiding us through turbulence toward a quiet, luminous return.

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Dismantling idols, 2025

Acrylic, oil, Hanji collage on canvas

23" x 30"

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W83 Ministry Center, 150 West 83rd Street, New York, United States

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