I begin from a sense of fracture and tension felt within. My work engages with abstraction after expression, acknowledging the legacy of gestural painting while moving toward restraint and duration. Rather than asserting emotion through scale or speed, I work through repetition, pressure, and time, using machine stitching as a bodily choreography shaped by rhythm and resistance. Thread passes under pressure, leaving states behind rather than solutions. The stitched lines carry persistence, instability, and the sensation of staying. Forms drawn from nature are translated into abstraction as structure and rhythm. In these works, holding becomes a mode of working shaped by accumulation and care.

Artist Bio

On-Kyeong Seong is a mixed media artist originally from Seoul, South Korea and currently lives and works in Peabody, MA. She was a teacher at an elementary school in Korea for many years and then came to Boston to pursue her dream as an artist. She delved into art and culture when she traveled to Boston and NYC. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her second BFA from Lesley University Art and Design, Cambridge. Her work has been exhibited widely, including Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Wheelock College and Boston University, Boston; Kingston Gallery, Boston; the Korean Consulate General, Newton, MA; Brookline Art Center, Brookline, MA; Harvard University and Mass Art College, Boston, among others. She has been included in numerous art magazines and broadcasts, such as WBURs Artery, Boston’s WHDH TV Channel 7, Artsy, Art New England, Artscope Magazine, Contemporary Art Curator, Spotlight Magazine and many more.