Origin: Suwon, South Korea
Instagram: @sourcherry_archive
Artist Profile
Suh Youn Choo (b. South Korea) is a Western-style painter and mixed media artist whose practice explores anxiety, emotional fragility, and survival in a world that feels both dangerous and absurd. A recent graduate of the Western Painting Department at Kyonggi University, Choo has exhibited work in both university and civic exhibitions, including Subtle Noises and My Frequencies (Soseong Museum, 2022) and Youth of a Green Spring Day (Yeongtong District Office, 2023). In 2024, her graduation exhibition marked a turning point, shifting from aesthetically “cute” works toward deeper emotional terrain.
Choo’s art draws from a personal place—specifically her ongoing relationship with anxiety—and manifests in tactile, surreal installations. Using materials such as jelly, slime, resin, broken mirror, and snack foods, she constructs playful yet unsettling environments that mirror her emotional landscape. Her work often teeters between humor and vulnerability, indulgence and instability, inviting viewers into a sticky, refracted world of self-protection and unease.
Featured Artwork
Title: Home Planet: Earth
Year: 2025
Medium: Styrofoam, mirror, resin, snack, jelly, chocolate, slime
Dimensions: 72.7 x 60.6 cm (approx. 28.6 x 23.9 in)
Price: $1,500
Status: Original, 1 of 1
Exhibition Information
This work is featured in May 2025: Echoes of the Earth – Environmental Art, curated by Mekhi Deleon. The exhibition centers on artists whose work explores the fragility of the planet, the emotional toll of ecological anxiety, and the search for healing and connection within environmental chaos.
In Home Planet: Earth, Choo reimagines the Earth not as a distant planet, but as a personal emotional terrain—melting, sticky, and filled with the sweet distractions we use to cope. Drawing from her own rituals of comfort-snacking during anxious periods, Choo embeds jelly, snacks, and slime into a flowing world bordered by sharp mirrors and synthetic grass. The piece is both playful and poignant: a surreal self-portrait of reluctance and resilience in a hostile landscape.
Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 8, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1 | 6 PM – 8 PM
Location: Bushwick Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
(for accessibility: full transcript below)
A fractured world, spun from sweetness and survival.
In Home Planet: Earth, Suh Youn Choo fuses mirror shards, resin, jelly, and snack foods into a fragile landscape—part playground, part battlefield. The familiar textures of comfort are turned uncanny, layered atop shattered surfaces that reflect both beauty and damage.
Choo’s piece teeters between whimsy and unease. Chocolate bars crown a broken sphere; slime and moss creep into the cracks. It’s a self-portrait rendered in absurd materials, a meditation on how we mask vulnerability in a world that feels perpetually on edge.
Home Planet: Earth doesn’t offer resolution. Instead, it invites us into a precarious ecology of tenderness, instability, and unexpected resilience.