Jinie Park | Twins

Jinie Park

ARTIST NAME

Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.

Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.

Jinie Park | Twins

April 16th - May 30th, 2026

Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present, Twins, an exhibition featuring a new body of work by Jinie Park. In her debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Park paints thinly layered, translucent assemblages of linen, muslin, and hand-woven fiber to explore materiality and activated space.

For Park, A four-walled space and painting share the same principle: the space within a square. Painting has the potential to go beyond a flat surface while maintaining the shape of the square. Park constructs the surface of each work with openings as if they are pocket holes for pants or shirts. The opening simultaneously exposes the underside of the painted surfaces while its own shadow is cast on the wall behind, like a doorway connecting one room to another. In this case, Park’s use of dual panels symbolizes two figures. Two seemingly identical individuals in one space evoke the sensation of looking at a mirror.

Diluted acrylic paints stain raw fabric. The liquid runs over the loosely stretched Kwangmok (Korean muslin) and Sambe (Korean linen), staining where the fabrics have been cut open on the surface. As the pigment dries, the fabrics become tighter around the stretchers. This physical interaction between materials during the painting process is a critical aspect of Park’s practice. Traditionally, Kwangmok was used for garments or covering a body for burial. Sambe was used for summer garments or household items due to its porous quality. These materials naturally resemble skin and are designed to be an extension of the body. Park utilises these fabrics for this reason, bringing a sense of kinship into the work.

ARTIST NAME

e In Twins, Park inverts painted canvases, exposes underlying structural components, and fuses gridded sections of fabric. While each canvas duo expresses gaps, divisions and differences between the two, they are of equal size and shape to their counterpart. As the canvases mirror one another, Park interrogates the surface as a window or partition, functioning as a mechanism for shifting perspectives.

Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.

Jinie Park’s paintings have been widely exhibited and collected throughout the US and internationally, in venues that include: Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland, OR); Kimsechoong Museum (Seoul, South Korea); Scott Center (Westminster, MD); Jeju Biennale, (Jeju Island, South Korea);Lazy Susan Gallery (New York, NY);Steven Harvey Fine Art Project (New York, NY). Park received a BFA in painting at Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea) and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD). Park was awarded an Individual Artist Award in Painting from the Maryland State Art Council, the Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship. In 2016 Park received the Perez Art Museum Miami Picks Award during PULSE Miami Beach.

Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.

Many Other Compartments, 2026

Immense Lightening, 2026

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All Causes, 2026

JINIE PARK

1987 Born in Seoul, South Korea

EDUCATION

2015

MFA in LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2011

BFA in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Paint, Scott Center, Westminster, MD

2016

Reap/Sow, Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Mobility, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2015

From A Number, Great White Hall Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. MD

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Courtyard, Columbia College, Columbia, SC

2021

Windows, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2019

A Pair: Two of the Same, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2018

Textile/Painting, Office 116a, Baltimore, MD

2017

Little House, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS

2025

Open Doors, Ballon Rouge (Online)

2023

Abstract Invitational, NÜART Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2021

Exquisite Shape, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2020

Reciprocity, Gallery 241, Wynnewood, PA

Miami University Young Painters Competition Finalist Show, Miami University, Oxford, OH

2019

OK, Comrade, Kimsechoong Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2018

Signs of Light, Light Haus, Tahoe, CA

Let’s Connect, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

MASS MoCA Open Studio, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

2017

Jeju Biennale, collaboration with Seounyoung Park, Art Space IAA, Jeju, South Korea

Inverse Variants, Lazy Susan Gallery, Manhattan, NY (Two person show)

2016

Member’s Juried Exhibition, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

Dark Room, Ballroom Gallery, Baltimore, MD (Two person show)

Surface Tension, Current Space,Baltimore, MD

Non-Representational Painting Competition Finalists Show, Miami University, Oxford, OH

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