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PAIGE JIYOUNG MOON

his spring, with the world still in on-again, off-again lockdown, our memories of seasons past grow sweeter. The California-based artist Paige Jiyoung Moon makes a practice of recording her memories in paint. Her canvases are ambitious not in scale (no work included here is a cluttered hotel room shared with her parents in ; and in an evening with friends in a crowded Seoul bar.

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