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Julia Jo
Riptide, 6 January - 11 February 2023

Julia Jo: Riptide

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Overview
Julia Jo, Riptide
Charles Moffett is pleased to present Riptide, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based, South Korean-born artist Julia Jo.
Juli Jo's practice encompasses a distinctive style of oil painting that incorporates a vibrant color palette to render compositions that oscillate between the figurative and the abstract. There is no stillness in the world of Jo's paintings; in many ways her work runs parallel to a life that has been lived in near constant motion.
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Works
  • Julia Jo Through Thick and Thin, 2022 Oil on linen 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Through Thick and Thin, 2022
    Oil on linen
    60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
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  • Julia Jo See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 2022 Oil on linen 70 x 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm)
    Julia Jo
    See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 2022
    Oil on linen
    70 x 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Ringing Endorsement, 2022 Oil on linen 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Ringing Endorsement, 2022
    Oil on linen
    60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Misery Loves Company, 2022 Oil on linen 70 x 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Misery Loves Company, 2022
    Oil on linen
    70 x 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Method to the Madness, 2022 Oil on linen 80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Method to the Madness, 2022
    Oil on linen
    80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Happily Ever After, 2022 Oil on linen 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Happily Ever After, 2022
    Oil on linen
    60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
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  • Julia Jo From the Four Winds, 2022 Oil on linen 70 x 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm)
    Julia Jo
    From the Four Winds, 2022
    Oil on linen
    70 x 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Back To Square One, 2022 Oil on linen 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Back To Square One, 2022
    Oil on linen
    60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Eat Your Heart Out, 2022 Oil on linen 80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Eat Your Heart Out, 2022
    Oil on linen
    80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Close to the Chest, 2022 Oil on linen 80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Close to the Chest, 2022
    Oil on linen
    80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Fish Out of Water, 2022 Oil on linen 80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Fish Out of Water, 2022
    Oil on linen
    80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
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  • Julia Jo Once Bitten, Twice Shy, 2022 Oil on linen 80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
    Julia Jo
    Once Bitten, Twice Shy, 2022
    Oil on linen
    80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm)
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Installation Views
  • Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
    Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
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  • Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
    Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
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  • Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
    Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
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    Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
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  • Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
    Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
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  • Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
    Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
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  • Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
    Julia Jo, Riptide, 2023, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York
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Press
  • Julia Jo, installation view, Charles Moffett, New York, 2023. Photo: Thomas Barratt

    3 Emerging Artists With Must-See Shows to See This Fall

    Julia Halperin, Robb Report, 15 July 2023
  • Julia Jo in her Brooklyn Studio, 2023. Photo: Charlie Rubin

    Julia Jo’s Hypnotic Abstractions Are Causing a Stir Among Collectors

    Osman Can Yerebakan, Galerie, 10 July 2023
  • Julia Jo, Installation View, "Riptide," Charles Moffett, New York, 2023. Photo: Thomas BarrattPhoto: Thomas Barratt

    Julia Jo: Riptide

    Annabel Keenan, The Brooklyn Rail, 1 February 2023
Press release
Charles Moffett is pleased to present Riptide, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based, South Korean-born artist Julia Jo. This marks the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery, following a celebrated presentation at NADA New York 2022, as well as Jo's solo debut in the U.S.

Jo's practice encompasses a distinctive style of oil painting that incorporates a vibrant color palette to render compositions that oscillate between the figurative and the abstract. There is no stillness in the world of Jo's paintings; in many ways her work runs parallel to a life that has been lived in near constant motion. While born in Seoul, since grade school, Jo has moved from country to country, state to state, never in one place for very long until settling most recently in New York. Her practice draws upon a well of personal experiences of misconnections, social miscues and interpersonal distance.

Drawing together twelve new paintings, the exhibition features a series of the largest paintings Jo has made to-date, including three spanning 80 x 80 inches. The expanded canvases introduce a newfound physicality and immersiveness to the compositions. In an evolution from last spring's exploration of the possibilities for her paintings within the formal constraints of the monochrome, this exhibition sees the artist's full embrace of the exuberant potency and impact of color.

The paintings' compositional roots are figures immersed in relationships of all forms - parental, romantic, platonic, antagonistic, voyeuristic. The force of these interactions suffuse the very environment the figures occupy, with the emotional and the abstract overwhelming the rational and the linear. Beginning each work by sketching in oil directly onto the canvas, Jo paints through a winding path of figurative discovery and loss. This process reverberates in the viewer's experience of the final paintings themselves. The sinewy flex of a leg, the open, desirous gape of a mouth, the bend of an archway, the neck of a wine bottle - all come into view just as quickly as they disappear. Her forms are slippery, simultaneously enticing yet eluding a firm grasp, engaging you in a tug-of-war between experience and understanding.

Universal emotions - desire, envy, joy, nostalgia, grief - anchor her paintings, which call to mind the sensuous richness, drama and dynamism of the Baroque. Striving to capture vast depths of feeling, Jo relishes in painting's ability to convey the inarticulable: what the graze of a hand to a face or the collapse of one form into the outstretched arms of another can express that words cannot. Yet even with the power of color, line and form at her dexterous hand, abstraction takes over and communication falters. It's at that precarious moment when her paintings are born, emerging from a terrain of perpetual static, from the tension between the familiar and the fleeting, the want to embrace and the fear to reveal. Understanding nearing the surface, only to disappear the second you thought you held it.

Julia Jo (b. 1991, Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. MFA Parsons School of Design 2019, BFA Smith College, 2016) focuses her practice on compositions in oil paint, which she applies in both precise and heavy brushstrokes. Her approach to each canvas allows her compositions to embrace both the figurative and the abstract. While at first glance Jo's paintings possess a frenetic energy, upon closer inspection, discernible imagery emerges hinting at multi layered narratives, interpersonal dynamics, and missed connections. Following Jo's New York solo debut at Charles Moffett this winter, the artist will be the subject of two upcoming solo exhibitions on the West Coast, including presentations at James Fuentes in Los Angeles, CA in May, and Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, CA in the fall. Her work is in the permanent collection of ICA Miami.
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