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“Place We Find Ourselves” by Jennifer Ahn | Solo Exhibition and Opening Reception

December 12 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Step into the captivating world of Jennifer Ahn’s solo exhibition, Place We Find Ourselves, and experience her artistry firsthand. Join us at the W83 Ministry Center for an immersive in-person event, where each work invites reflection and discovery. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with this artist’s compelling creations.*Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase artworks on view at the opening.

Date: Friday, December 12, at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Location: W83 Ministry Center Gallery

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exhibit statement

In Place We Find Ourselves, Korean-born artist Jennifer Ahn invites us into landscapes that mirror the heart’s journey—through loss and renewal, wandering and return. Her semi-abstract terrains, layered with paper, pigment, and fragments of Hanji (traditional Korean paper), are at once intimate and expansive: spaces where memory, struggle, and resilience converge.Forests, rivers, and hills in Ahn’s work become vessels of endurance, their textured surfaces and flowing gestures echoing the rhythms of grief, hope, and quiet transformation. Torn paper and embedded fabrics trace paths between fragility and strength, shadow and light, suggesting that healing is a layered, luminous process.Drawing from her Korean heritage and personal experience, Ahn transforms nature into companion and witness. Her paintings do not depict home as a fixed place but as a state of being—a sanctuary found in reflection, in the tactile richness of materials, and in the silent resilience of the world around us.Continuing the inquiry of her 2022 exhibition Desolation | Consolation, Place We Find Ourselves is a meditation on impermanence, renewal, and the subtle, enduring beauty of becoming whole. Here, landscapes are not merely seen—they are felt, guiding us through turbulence toward a quiet, luminous return.

artist statement

Place We Find Ourselves reflects my journey as a Korean-American, semi-abstract visual artist who turns to landscapes and nature as both mirror and sanctuary. For me, painting is not simply about depicting a view—it is about charting a passage through struggle, transformation, and return. The terrain of hills, rivers, and trees becomes a metaphorical map of human experience, where moments of turbulence and loss coexist with hope and renewal.Each work arises from layered processes—brushstrokes that suggest movement, textured surfaces built from paper and pigment, and colors that oscillate between shadow and radiance. These gestures hold the memory of hardship, yet they are equally rooted in the possibility of growth. My practice often points toward the idea of home, not merely as a physical destination but as a state of being: the recognition that we emerge, through difficulty, more whole and alive.Texture plays a central role in my practice. I work with papers, fabric, and found objects, which I tear, strip, and embed into the surface with a gel medium. These tactile layers catch light, create shadows, and extend the painting into a dimensional space. The process of embedding Hanji(traditional Korean paper) is both physical and symbolic: it grounds my work in heritage while transforming fragility into strength.Alongside ink, gouache, acrylic, and oil stick, these materials become vessels for movement—gestures of chaos and calm, turbulence and stillness.Place We Find Ourselves invites viewers to see nature as a participant in this journey—a place of witness, healing, and quiet victory. In these landscapes, I hope others may glimpse their own stories of wandering, struggle, and the profound return home.

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