Chung Sang-Hwa is a South Korean Dansaekhwa painter who utilizes a repetitive process of adding and removing paint to achieve his works. In Chung’s “rip” and “fill” technique, he adds multiple layers of paint and inter-woven strips of wax and clay, which are ripped off to create a grid-like structure. Dansaekhwa, translated as “monochrome painting” is a movement concerned with the physicality of painting. These artists sought to break away from the legacy of Japanese Imperialism and Western abstraction, and based their works off of traditional Korean ink paintings. Born in 1932 in Yougduck, South Korea, he attended the Seoul National University School of Fine Arts before studying in both Paris and Tokyo...