Dahee Kim Lew
The colour red represents key elements of human life: Love, passion, pain, anger, luck. In this portrait, red is used as the undertone of her skin, the red in her eyes, and her clothing. The red shirt represents the passion she once had that is now faded by the passage of time and hardships of life. Her old and wrinkled shirt was once new but is now old and faded as she is. A brightness that though still visible, has dimmed.
The Truth Ever After
Acrylic on canvas, 36” x 36” $1300
Dahee Kim Lew was born in South Korea, with a background in fine art, and industrial and visual design from Hansung University in Seoul. She studied furniture design in a masters degree program until she married and moved to North America.
For Dahee Kim Lew, making art is a way to communicate with people. As a military wife, continually moving from state to state, she was unable to put down new roots. Childhood trauma, an isolated lifestyle, damaging experiences many women in the world face, and fifteen years of struggling through language and cultural barriers as an immigrant, culminated in her need to enter therapy for depression. It was there that Dahee found art as a conduit for healing herself. Art became Dahee’s way to communicate with people from different cultures, ages, race and gender. A common language through which she could communicate more clearly, a language that has the power to touch souls, and to heal. Dahee uses portraiture to convey expressions and emotion in a way that, to her, is more eloquent than the spoken word.