Based in Brooklyn, Korean-born artist Haeri Yoo explores ‘humour, sexuality, and the overt and subtle relationships that haunt the space between beauty and violence’. In Friendly Sharing (2008), spectral figures flicker in and out of abstraction, rendered in thin veils of pigment and applied with the rapid immediacy of calligraphic strokes. Each of her works is a fantastical vignette born of her own imagination, infusing memories of her childhood in Korea with dark and disturbing nuances. ‘Like a child views the world, my work segregates and playfully mutates the realities present’, Yoo explains. ‘Beauty and violence, light and dark are left in an inconclusive disharmonious impasse.’ Central to her aesthetic is an extensive preparatory process, in which the image is ‘built up, painted, drawn, pasted and re-shaped from a large repository of smaller explorations’. The artist featured in the Saatchi Gallery’s 2012 group show Korean Eye, and has exhibited widely throughout New York, London and Korea.