Minjae Art

Minjae (Born 1989) is an artist from South Korean. His work is able to draw the viewer in with its clever combination of beauty, powerful colors, innocence, halting imagery and fragility with brash. His art is loud and aggressive, and expresses a mild disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if the viewers feel that they’d like to. He started using colors when he was just 7 years old. Not many people accepted his art, including some of his teachers, so he always drew by himself. He’s worked hard and is now one of the best artists in South Korea. What characterizes Minjae’s work is drama. His colorful, bold and collage-like drawings of faces are unbelievably detailed. And the otherworldly females that crowd most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, which it seems even the brightest marker colors cannot manage to save them from some sort of peril that’s looming. Or are the viewers the ones who are in danger? Whether the subjects or the viewers, we are drawn in, surprised, interacting on an emotional level, and looking for something that we may not even be sure of. Minjae uses nothing but color markers and pen & ink to create his stunning works. His style is improving and developing each time new images appear though he has yet to break into commercial success. However, framed Minjae art are already selling in large numbers. He finds inspiration in human face, color and abstract movement. He’s always experimenting with new materials, and ways to do things.