The off-guard, unmemorable moments in between where we are and where we’re going are rarely examined with as much precious detail as in Paige Jiyoung Moon’s new paintings. Like little Wunderkammer— cabinets of curiosities— the paintings manage to collect people and the objects that surround them (phones, shoes, luggage, food, furniture, art supplies) like a modern-day personal art diary version of Where’s Waldo.
The effect is a hypnotic adventure into everyday life— that of the artist, her friends, her parents— but also of the modern, digital-age experience. Figures are often fixated on various iterations of screens, which are like peekaboo windows into potentially infinite art diaries, the banal motion of the screen-scroll captured for posterity in a vibrantly serene revery.
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