Artists Behind Harmony in Contrast – Matthew Langley & Soojung Park
Explore the artistic journeys of Matthew Langley and Soojung Park—two abstract artists whose distinct methods and global careers converge in Harmony in Contrast at AP Space. Learn about their education, exhibitions, and signature styles.
Behind the serene cohesion of Harmony in Contrast lies a deeper story—two artists from vastly different worlds whose work converges to reveal the depth of abstraction and the beauty of opposition. Matthew Langley, an American painter rooted in the history of geometric abstraction, and Soojung Park, a Korean-born artist working with light and ink on plexiglass, meet not just in contrast but in complement. Their practices, philosophies, and backgrounds add layers of meaning to an exhibition where duality becomes unity.
Matthew Langley is a contemporary American artist known for his richly textured, grid-based abstractions that explore repetition, color, and form. With a background in both painting and photography, Langley studied at The Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., where he developed a foundational understanding of minimalism and visual structure. His artistic language draws from the legacies of color field painting, hard-edge abstraction, and modernist reduction.
Langley’s work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and art fairs across the United States and Europe, including solo exhibitions at Blank Space (New York), A Gallery (Washington, D.C.), and Context Art Miami. His pieces have been acquired by numerous private collections and corporate institutions, and his approach has been profiled in art publications for its clarity, restraint, and meditative tone.
Over the years, Langley’s process has moved from tight precision toward a more intuitive, painterly freedom. While still working within a grid or repeated form, he increasingly allows spontaneity and emotion to guide the final outcome. The resulting works feel balanced yet dynamic—calm on the surface, rich with undercurrents beneath.
Soojung Park brings a delicate but deeply intentional presence to the world of contemporary abstraction. Born and raised in South Korea, Park received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ewha Womans University, one of Korea’s most prestigious institutions, before going on to earn her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York.
Her technique—rubbing, sanding, and layering ink and pigment on plexiglass surfaces—has made her work instantly recognizable. The method is as much about subtraction as addition, revealing forms through erasure, translucency, and gentle accumulation. Her work reflects a fusion of Korean aesthetic sensibilities with Western contemporary modes of abstraction, and she draws deeply from nature, memory, and impermanence.
Park has exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions in Seoul, New York, and Hong Kong, including at the Queens Museum of Art, Hangaram Art Museum, and international fairs such as Art Basel Hong Kong. Her work has been supported by grants from the Korea Arts Council, and she has been invited to artist residencies across Asia and North America.
Critics and curators often note the meditative quality of Park’s work—the sense that her pieces are less about what’s there and more about what’s felt. Her compositions unfold slowly, asking viewers to engage with light, shadow, and suggestion.
While Langley builds with color and grid, and Park subtracts with light and line, their shared commitment to restraint, rhythm, and quiet inquiry gives Harmony in Contrast its poetic force. Langley seeks harmony through the collision of shape and pigment; Park, through the layering of silence and time. Together, their work reminds us that abstraction is not absence—it is presence in its most distilled form.
Whether navigating Langley’s bold arrangements or getting lost in the delicate transparencies of Park’s plexiglass worlds, Harmony in Contrast is an invitation to feel. To pause. And to witness how two artists, separated by geography and tradition, find resonance in the language of contrast.
