Lot 1146: Her Suyoung (B. 1972)

Her Suyoung (B. 1972)
My Cob 351016, 2008
Signed and dated on verso Her Su Young 2008 and titled as above
Acrylic paint on canvas, unglazed box frame
23 5/8 x 40 9/16in. (60 x 103cm.)

Her Suyoung graduated from Seoul National University in 1999 and was a lecturer at Won Kwang University. He had one-person exhibitions at the Seoul Arts Center and the Picasso Gallery, Busan, in 2005.

He lives and works in China and is one of few Korean artists still working in the classic medium of ink and paper. Many of Her's drawings and prints have the title My Cob, a play on "cob," a thick-set horse, and the bicycle, the artist's equivalent steed. The shape of the white clouds resembles the mythical winged horse Pegasus.