"I try to create mysterious work, melting the viewer in, impacting on the most basic emotions rooted in ancient parts of our brain, our primitive self. My works, breaths, bleeds my memory, pleasure, sorrow --- self. More than anything else, I want to speak my love and respect for people. Our god-like and animal-like qualities: the inner struggles we all encounter." Following graduation at Honk Ik University with a Bachelor's in Art History, Mi Jung Penzien was named Assistant Curator at The National Museum of Modern Art in her native Seoul,Korea. Arriving in the United States in 1988, Mi Jung received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts. Receiving many honors, Mi Jung's work has most recently been displayed at the University of California, Berkeley. Her early experience in the dynamic city of Seoul contrasted sharply with her quiet surrounding in Lafayette, California: a tension which appears frequently in her art. In her work, there is a celebration of order and disorder. While Mi Jung's work can be described as abstract expressionism, there is a traditional spirit hidden in the contemporary sentiments of her painting. A wandering, if you will, of who she is and what she can be. Mi Jung's imagery is the voice of solitude calling its identity into question and seeks for something to hold on to: a connection.