Jade Jwa (b. 1979) is a Los Angeles–based figurative painter working in oil. Born in Seoul and raised in one of the world's most competitive societies, she has spent most of her adult life navigating life as a first-generation immigrant in Los Angeles. Her paintings explore displacement, alienation, and generational identity through figures caught between worlds, present in environments shaped by family history and cultural expectation without fully belonging to them. Building layered surfaces with a restrained palette, she leaves forms partially unresolved, sustaining psychological atmosphere over narrative clarity.
Additional Artworks
From TAG Gallery
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Mel Smothers
Kristin Boles, “Summer Glow.”
Oil on Panel
8 x 8 x 2 in (20.32 x 20.32 x 5.08 cm)
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Jackie Goldberg
N. Spring Street Bridge (Lincoln Heights)
Acrylic on canvas board
12 x 16 in (30.48 x 40.64 cm)
$900
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San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center SFVACC
A Face Is Like A Work of Art by Adria Becker
Mixed Media Collage on Wood Panel
12 x 12 in (30.48 x 30.48 cm)
$500
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David Lang
A view of Mount Adams, Washington
Oil
12 x 16 x 1 in (30.48 x 40.64 x 2.54 cm)
$850
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Karen Fiorito
Plant Collagraph
Collagraph
14 x 11 x 0 in (35.56 x 27.94 x 0.0 cm)
$450
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Gary Polonsky
Japanese Maple tree
Mixed Media
15 x 16 x 16 in (38.1 x 40.64 x 40.64 cm)
$700
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Eren Alptekin
Coast to Coast 5
Acrylic, mixed media on wood
36 x 36 x 1.25 in (91.44 x 91.44 x 3.18 cm)
$3,500
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Gary Polonsky
Snickers
3D acrylic & mixed media
12 x 35 x 8 in (30.48 x 88.9 x 20.32 cm)
$1,400