The exhibition name of "Blue Face and Black Peony," a two-person exhibition of Park Kyung Ryul and Eom Yu-jeong, held at Space Willing N Dealing from August 16 to September 17, 2023, is words borrowed from paintings of these two artists. The title of this exhibition reminds the audience of a certain image intuitively. The image that the audience actually feels in the exhibition space creates a gap with the image recognized in advance from this title. In addition, the two artists interpret the characteristic of "Drawing" in their own ways to show the expanded possibilities and power of this genre.

The images of the two artists start from different points. In other words, Park Kyung Ryul improvises and continuously deals with images emerging from imagination improvising according to the flow of consciousness, while Eom Yu-jeong models specific objects. Park’s drawing is mainly done on paper with texture and thickness that can be used for oil painting or the cloth without canvas frame. Like any large canvas by this artist, it is composed of various colors and images. The artist sees the drawings, which were mainly drawn as part of the space composition for painting installation, as another extension of painting that separately captures fragmented parts in the process of painting work.

Eom Yu-jeong's drawing has clear genre characteristics in that it deals with paper and lines. However, the artist's canvas painting process also captures the most impressive characteristics by boldly omitting the actual landscape, and completes the screen with understated colors and brush strokes. These characteristics show that the artist's attitude toward the object when dealing with painting is not different from her attitude when dealing with drawing.

Park Kyung Ryul embodies the ambiguous images revealed from her imagination and the senses arising from it into various factors. Since studying abroad (around 2017), the artist has been experimenting with building a specific environment as an installation-type painting including canvas, embodying images created inside the canvas into shapes with physical lumps outside the screen. The works shown in this exhibition consist of independent drawings that Park Kyung Ryul had not shown in any other exhibition. The artist implements the screen designated as a surface with a smoothly spreading color and constructs the screen by drawing improvised lines, plane, and dots. This process creates the effect of transforming the two-dimensional plane into a three-dimensional spatial sense. These are more primitive landscapes before the painting, which occupied huge canvases or spaces.

Eom Yu-jeong has been engaging in the process of observing and reproducing subjects through drawing and painting. Mainly focusing on human bodies, landscapes, and plants, she attempts bold omissions while emphasizing the most characteristic aspects, creating unique and vibrant scenes that resonate with everyone. In this exhibition, Eom Yu-jeong presents a drawing series featuring achromatic or monochromatic plant images. The plants are replaced with lines, tracing their structures and occupying the center or the entire screen. The lines are bent, stretched, and meandering, yet intense. Moreover, from the empty margins surrounding the images, lyrical emotions emerge rather than emptiness. While the artist begins by looking at specific subjects, the drawn plants bring out their potential abstraction.

- Space WillNDealing