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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Jaime Coffey
Hope
Egg tempera on clayboard
12 x 16 x 1.5 in (30.48 x 40.64 x 3.81 cm)
$1,600
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Kathryn Pitt
Standing Woman with head in Hands
Acrylic montoype and pastel
10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.32 cm)
$400
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Kathy Park
Levitating In Isolation
oil on gesso board
10 x 8 x 0.125 in (25.4 x 20.32 x 0.32 cm)
$500
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Carrington Moore
An Unclouded Summer Moon
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
24 x 30 x 1.5 in (60.96 x 76.2 x 3.81 cm)
$1,640
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Barbara Danzi
Emerging
Textile
66 x 42 in (167.64 x 106.68 cm)
$2,300
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Christine Forest
The Seed
Acrylics and Mixed Media on canvas
40 x 40 x 1.5 in (101.6 x 101.6 x 3.81 cm)
$3,600
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Miriam Schulman
New York City
Photograph
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
$375
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Joan Horsfall Young
Shallots
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
12 x 12 in (30.48 x 30.48 cm)
$500