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Kelly Haejung Paik is a Seattle-based visual artist whose work reinterprets Korean heritage forms through contemporary abstraction. Through line, color, form, and material, she explores the dialogue between human-made structure and natural rhythm, weaving cultural pattern into dimensional surface.
NOW FEATURED: Kelly Haejung Paik on SeattleN's N People
🎬 NOW FEATURED: Kelly Haejung Paik on SeattleN's N People
Kelly Haejung Paik was selected as the inaugural guest of SeattleN's new video interview series, N People — the largest Korean-American online media platform in the Pacific Northwest.
In this special feature, Kelly discusses her landmark project, Beyond Borders: 8 Simultaneous Exhibitions in Washington, and the journey that brought her from KBS announcer in Korea, to university professor, to full-time artist in Seattle.
· 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DLiTSDLec
· 📰 SeattleN: https://www.seattlen.com/hot/61086
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🎬 주목 인터뷰: 시애틀N 'N People' — 백혜정 작가
백혜정 작가가 서북미 최대 한인 온라인 미디어 시애틀N의 새 동영상 시리즈 'N People'의 첫 번째 게스트로 선정되었습니다.
이번 인터뷰에서 백 작가는 워싱턴주 8개 전시장에서 동시에 펼쳐지는 전시 《경계를 넘어서》와 함께, KBS 아나운서에서 교수, 그리고 전업 작가로 이어진 삶의 여정을 이야기합니다.
· 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DLiTSDLec
· 📰 SeattleN: https://www.seattlen.com/hot/61086
NOW ON VIEW - FEATURED EXHIBITION
1. Solo Installation
Contained Radiance
The Vault Gallery — Postmark Center for the Arts
Presented by the City of Auburn Public Arts Program
Jan 15 – Apr 10, 2026
A site-responsive installation centered on the Korean moon jar as a vessel of transformation. Integrating painting and sculptural structure, the work incorporates hanji (Korean mulberry paper) woven into the surface, exploring restraint, luminosity, and dimensional depth through saturated color.
2. Institutional Exhibition
Seattle Convention Center — Phyllis Lamphere Gallery
Florals – Light in the Winter (Juried Exhibition)
Feb 13 – Apr 21, 2026
Three paintings from the Floral Stillness series selected for the Rotating Art Program at the Seattle Convention Center.
3. Juried Group Exhibition
Now Showing: Delusions at The Gallery at Graphite Arts Center
Two new paintings — Stepping Stone and Ephemeral Scales — are currently on view as part of Delusions, a juried group exhibition at The Gallery at Graphite Arts Center in Edmonds, WA. Both works are oil on canvas, 40×30×1.5", and explore the surreal territory where classical form meets dreamlike logic.
On view through April 25, 2026.
📍 202 Main St., Edmonds, WA | Fri & Sat 12–5PM
Selected Additional Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
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Florals – Light in the Winter, Seattle Convention Center Rotating Art Program (Juried Exhibition), Phyllis Lamphere Gallery, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA (Feb 13 – Apr 21, 2026). Three paintings accepted (Floral Stillness submission series).
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Objects in the Mirror Are Smaller Than They Appear (WPW Columbia Center Gallery) — Jan–Apr 2026