Artist Studio Visit – Hongseon Jang
Thursday, January 31, 1:00-2:30 pm
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
161-04 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, NY 11432-6112
E train to Jamaica Center (Parsons/Archer)
Please RSVP at 516-983-3935 or info@ahlfoundation.org
AHL Foundation is pleased to announce a studio visit to Hongseon Jang. He is an installation artist who has been showing the site specific works in public spaces as well as participating in various indoor exhibitions. His works usually makes artificial organs and industrial objects. He explores interrelated relationship between human and non-human forms through symbols, structures, patterns, and other formal qualities. His installation works are often composed of found objects and common products. He transforms these industrial objects into raw elements in the nature. He presents a fresh visual insight into negotiating bond or rupture between culture and nature, oscillating from fragility to solidness, from formation to erosion, from substance to nil. Overall his works carry potent influence of eastern philosophy such as rotation of seasons, essence remaining through continuous changes, and harmony between man and nature.
Hongseon Jang
Hongseon Jang graduated from Dan Kook University in Korea and moved to New York. He then received his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. His works have been exhibited at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, Islip Art Museum in Long Island, Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University, the Cohen Gallery, the Granoff Center at Brown University, and many other galleries and public institutions. He was also a winner of AHL Foundation’s Visual Art Award as well as recipient of “Smack Mellon Hot Picks” of Small Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn in 2012. At the moment, he is selected as a residency artist in the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Workspace Program in Jamaica, New York.
