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A painting of a stylised mountain range in shades of blue, green and teal under a pink sky. The landscape is framed by two grey 3D blocks and surrounded by a border of floating blue geometric shards.

Art: Eun Ji Ryu conjures up a weird painted wonderland

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Date
23 October 2013

How’s this for a platter full of surrealist artwork to tuck right into? Eun Ji Ryu’s abstract paintings call up notions of weird wonderlands and graphic art inspired landscapes, and with two of these very unique paintings named “Living Room” I can barely contain my curiosity as to what Eun’s house might look like. Just to add to my already inquisitive mind, the series is called Gaze Inside raising all kinds of interesting questions about interiority, visual architecture and the like.

While I harbour my questions, sit back and let yourself fall eyes first into these lovely compositions with mountains, palm trees, a solitary leg and plenty of weirdly wiggly textiles all flashing past you like a slightly odd collage of painted shapes.

An illustration of a blue rectangular pool set within a pale yellow frame. In the background, stylised blue and green mountains sit against a soft pink sky.
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Eun Ji Ryu: A Room of One’s Own

An illustration of a surreal landscape with a red floor and a pale blue background. Three dark blue silhouettes loom over a central area containing teal organic shapes and grey fragments.
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Eun Ji Ryu: Ghost

An abstract painting of a white, undulating figure outlined in black. A teal leg wearing a red high-heeled shoe extends from the figure, surrounded by orange circles and pink, branch-like shapes.
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Eun Ji Ryu:

A collage of geometric shapes on a pale pink background. A blue triangle with white organic lines sits below a green rectangle topped with two orange circles.
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Eun Ji Ryu: Man and Swimming

An abstract painting of blue and green mountains under a pale grey sky. Floating above the peaks are various geometric shapes in red, yellow, blue and green, alongside a pair of pink legs.
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Eun Ji Ryu: Somewhere in the Deep Forest

A painting of a brown sofa set against a pale purple and green background. The sofa sits on a bright red rug featuring a swirling, teal-edged pattern.
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Eun Ji Ryu: The Living Room

An illustration of a surreal landscape with a pale pink patterned floor and a light blue background. Three abstract, teal-coloured forms stand in the space, with a rectangular blue pool of swirling water in the foreground.
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Eun Ji Ryu: The Living Room

An abstract illustration featuring flowing white and grey shapes outlined in black. Pink circles are scattered across the composition, which is framed by a bold yellow border and a pale blue background.
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Eun Ji Ryu: Untitled

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Maisie Skidmore

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Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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