By Kayla Lee

The artist's works are both figurative and non-figurative. It is both landscape and non-landscape. In Oriental paintings, the “Bugam” method, such as looking down from a high place at an angle, often appears, which is a distinctly different way of composing than the Western perspective based on the 'perspective drawing method that assumes the point of view and the point of vanishing at the same time'.

As it reveals the degree of perspective based on psychological perception rather than scientific perspective, the artist's landscapes produce curved, crooked compositions and free forms that are different from the perspective of real landscapes. 

The world of the artist's paintings is wide and diverse, ranging from realistic to abstract in terms of expression, from expressionistic to figurative, with unique expressions that imply a floating mental atmosphere and a purely sculptural schematic view.

The artist, who draws a lot of inspiration from Deleuze's Rhizome philosophy, makes the ordinary life and objects she depicts as colorful and heterogeneous as rhizome, lively and swaying.

At first glance, Lim Hyun-ju's paintings, filled with jaggedly curved houses and brightly colored flowering trees, give the impression that they are straight out of a fairy tale book, but it is the realism that underpins her work that makes the impression of fairy tale sensibilities more poignant. 

The alleyways and staircases that connect house and house, house and tree, and rise into the sky represent a world that stretches outward infinitely instead of a single, completed world.

The shapes of the houses standing shoulder to shoulder suggest that a new meaning of "we" is born only at the point where self-affirmation and consideration for others meet. 

The artist's unique expression of poetic realism ultimately emphasizes that the creation of difference and diversity creates an open, multi-layered order. 

Whereas the world we live in has largely disconnected the outside from the inside and urged its members to move towards a single, fixed center, the objects in this canvas are busy preparing for a conversation that is open to outside stimuli and may go anywhere. 

Houses bathed in the faint moonlight on dark nights, colored by flower petals in spring, and reflecting the light of gray clouds on cloudy days. The street lamps that bend over and silently watch the passersby, and the telephone poles that keep sending signals to somewhere far away. 

With their whole bodies, they constantly create new movements and spaces, turning even the barriers between existence and existence into connecting pathways. 

Artist Lim creates large strokes of paintings with the expression of painterly spaces and realms of consciousness in her canvases, which deconstruct fixed forms and frames, but are never light, carrying implications and afterimages and giving charm.

Career of Artist Lim Hyun-ju

Artist Lim held her 38th solo exhibition. 
. 4 invitational exhibitions at Haeoreum Gallery, Busan.
. Invitational exhibition at Bukcheonghwacheop Gallery 
. Busan Humanities Center Dali Gallery Invitational Exhibition 
. Nampo Gallery Invitational Exhibition
. Solo Exhibition at Busan Cultural Center
. Solo exhibition at BNK Gallery
. Insadong Maru Art Center Gaon Gallery
. Hong Kong Harbor Art Fair Harbour City,
. LA Art Show
. Korea (Busan) China (Fujian) Exchange Exhibition -Searching for the Sea Silk Road Dream- Fujian Provincial Art and Culture Center 
. Monaco Contemporary Art Fair 
. Invitational Exhibition at Mumbai Biennale, India.
. Jeju International Exhibition Wind, Windy Hyuk, Invitational Exhibition Jeju International Art Center.
. Korea Contemporary Artists Association, Korea-China Exchange Exhibition Mokpo Cultural Center
. 100 Korean Contemporary Artists Yongsan Art Hall
. 100 Women Artists Exhibition Iksan Arts and Culture Center
. Boryeong Art Invitational Exhibition 'Embracing the Sun' Boryeong Culture and Arts Center Exhibition Hall 
. Insa Art Special Exhibition In Coexistence and Diversity
. Bank Art Fair Seoul Setack Exhibition Center
. Sculpture Art Seoul COEX Exhibition Center
. Busan International Gallery Art Fair BEXCO Exhibition Center BAMA
. Art Fair Daegu, Daegu Exco Exhibition Center
. Busan International Art Fair BIAF
. The Corso Art Fair Ulsan Lotte Hotel
. Asia Hotel Art Fair Park Hayat Busan
. Daegu International Blue Art Fair EXCO Exhibition Center