Harper’s is pleased to announce Quieter and Colder, New York-based artist Hyegyeong Choi’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.  Choi, who was born and raised in Korea, traditionally paints shapely women who indulge in surreal environments. These striking figures subvert stifling conceptions of beauty as they rest their nude bodies amidst lush terrain and electric pools of water. But for Choi, water is not always a site of respite: the critical source of life has been a symbol of emotional turmoil for the artist who has survived the troubles of self-destruction. Across Quieter and Colder, Choi reckons with the plight of this psychological trauma across immersive figurative paintings. In these new works, intrepid protagonists overcome treacherous landscapes, embodying Choi’s odyssey through the afflictions of…