​흔적 After the Bark

​What is seen does not arrive all at once. Forms appear shaped, held, or redirected, carrying signs of having been touched, adjusted, or left over time. These conditions take shape gradually, settling through repetition until change becomes part of their presence rather than something separate from it. Oh works by staying with these conditions. Through drawing and printmaking, pressure is applied and transferred, then returned to again. Images are printed, revisited, and allowed to smudge and blur. Rather than fixing an image in place, repetition opens it up, making visible the quiet accumulation of time and passage.

​In 흔적 (Heunjeok); After the Bark, there is no attempt to resolve or repair. The work lingers where intervention has become ordinary, embedded within what is passed by every day. What remains is not a clear wound or stable meaning, but forms that continue under strain, carrying what has shaped them forward.

​Oh returns to these traces and their afterimages, inscribing them into the plate and releasing them onto paper.

​About Artist

​Stella Oh is a South Korean visual artist based between New York and Seoul. Working primarily in printmaking and drawing, her practice begins with close attention to everyday surroundings, focusing on forms that are often passed by, overlooked, or taken for granted. Through repetition and material process, she translates these observations into images that shift over time, allowing subtle irregularities, pressure, and accumulated change to surface. Alongside her studio practice, Oh works as an art educator, curator, and researcher, engaging with visual art across making, teaching, and inquiry.

​Artist Website: https://www.stellaoart.com/

​About Curator

​Chloe Wu is a multimedia artist, art educator, and podcaster from China, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her studies explore the trauma beneath perfectionism and engages in somatic inquiry through lithographs and installations. She is also invested in mindfulness-centered art education in museum and classroom spaces, and co-hosts the Chinese podcast Free Bagel (请你吃贝狗), where she reflects on feminism voices, creativity and cross-cultural experience.