Artist Yi Seula (b. 1990) began her professional career as a book cover illustrator in 2013, gradually expanding her scope to include commercial films and serialized shows. The multidisciplinary visual artist brings a unique style into both the breadth and depth of media she explores, evolves, and expands into. Her recent foray into her early thirties betrays the contemporary art scene’s appreciation for her works - both home and abroad. From Seoul to New York and Paris, she explores cities, and paints cityscapes and city-folk going about their day with a gentle yet detailed brush. 

The artist embraces and leans into her place as an urban observer, offering unexpected solace and warmth to the ashiest concrete jungles and bit rate city skylines. The city speaks to her in a beautiful parole that the cement langue does not communicate. She understands the soaring azure sky, the crisp draft that lingers for hours after dawn, the starry black nothingness dabbled over the understated evening cityscape. The city breathes on her canvas, unfurling and curling with undulating life. 

A consistent and prolific practitioner, Yi's latest solo exhibition at Gallery Afternoon includes more than 40 works of oil pastels, watercolors, drawings, and others that echo with Concrete Garden, the title and theme of the exhibition.