A Thesis on Social Media’s Bastardization of the Sacred by Chunbum Park

After his review in Two Coats of Paint, Chunbum Park delves deeper into the complex meanings he uncovers in Elias Wessel’s series It’s Complicated, recently exhibited at the solo show at Picture Theory in Chelsea. Their full writing, titled »A Thesis on Social Media’s Bastardization of the Holy and the Sacred,« is available here.

Chunbum Park, Chun Series 01-27, digital photography, 24 × 16 inches, 2023. (All images © 2024 Chunbum Park. Photo taken by Kun Kyung Sok).

Chunbum Park is an artist from South Korea, where they were born in 1991. They received their BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2020 and their MFA in Fine Arts Studio from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2022, where they changed their pronouns. Born a male, Park likes to cross dress and depicts themselves as a woman in their paintings. They are the inventor of the ArtBid art auction card game and run the Emerging Whales Collective (currently merged with the Office Space Gallery website), where they interview other artists. In 2023, Park began writing exhibition reviews for various online and print magazines, including the New Visionary Magazine and Two Coats of Paint. They currently reside in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.

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