Hong Seon Jang
Primary Medium: Sculpture
Other media: Installation, Found material, Mixed media
Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts
Website: http://www.hongseonjang.com/
Artist Statement
I create works that evoke a fundamental recognition of our space and environment and imply physical vulnerability in our daily life. The main concept is a fascination with the comparison of human activity and natural phenomena as it corresponds to the circulation of destruction and creation. My work consists of installations often made out of found objects and common products. In giving these everyday materials new meanings and aesthetic possibilities, I strive to actively practice the concepts of the Eastern philosophies of the circulatory life system and the continuous flow of connections. By attempting to understand characteristics of different life systems and their associations with our own entity as my subject matter, I intend to emphasize tension between the aspects of dialectical contradictions existing in nature and society such as physical fragility and danger, motion and change, renewal and development, substance and emptiness, creation and extinction.
Other media: Installation, Found material, Mixed media
Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts
Website: http://www.hongseonjang.com/
Artist Statement
I create works that evoke a fundamental recognition of our space and environment and imply physical vulnerability in our daily life. The main concept is a fascination with the comparison of human activity and natural phenomena as it corresponds to the circulation of destruction and creation. My work consists of installations often made out of found objects and common products. In giving these everyday materials new meanings and aesthetic possibilities, I strive to actively practice the concepts of the Eastern philosophies of the circulatory life system and the continuous flow of connections. By attempting to understand characteristics of different life systems and their associations with our own entity as my subject matter, I intend to emphasize tension between the aspects of dialectical contradictions existing in nature and society such as physical fragility and danger, motion and change, renewal and development, substance and emptiness, creation and extinction.
Selected Works
|  Zip City - 2009 - Zipties - 200" x 120" x 25"  Zip City (detail) - 2009 - Zipties - 200" x 120" x 25"  Type City - 2009 - Metal printing press type, table - 80" x 50" x 35" (Variable)  Type City (detail) - 2009 - Metal printing press type, table - 80" x 50" x 35" (Variable)  Geographic Wave - 2009 - National Geographic magazines, binder clips, push pins - 140" x 80"  Geographic Wave (detail) - 2009 - National Geographic magazines, binder clips, push pins - 140" x 80"  Green Forest - 2009 - Tape on green chalkboard - 30" x 40"  Green Forest (detail) - 2009 - Tape on green chalkboard - 30" x 40" |
Artist Bio
EDUCATION
MFA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
BFA .Dan Kook University, South Korea
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 . New Project, Gallery 115, McColl Center for Visual Art , Chalotte, NC (solo)
........... Site- specific installation project, The Soap Factory, minneapolis, MN
............Rainbow Forest, Artspace, New Haven, CT (solo)
2009 .Two Degrees of Separation, Gallery SATORI, New York, NY
........... Into the Life, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, NY
.......... .Yes, We are connected, Space World Gallery, Long Island City, NY
............Borderline, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
........... USB, Contemporary Korean Art in the World, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
............Projects '09, The Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
.......... .Project room, Bemis Center for Contemporary, Omaha, NE
.......... .Project Studio Artists 2009, Gallery 201 at PS 122, New York, NY
........... Delineations, Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY
2008 ..Benefit show with 122 art works, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
........... Essence of Absence, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY
.......... .Fourteen Hands, The Closter Art Studio, Closter, NJ
.......... .0708, Art Gate Gallery, New York, NY
2007 . Melting Pot: Images of Diversity, Project Diversity Queens, Open Center, Flushing, NY
......... ..Paris-New York, Champcueil City Hall Gallery, Paris
.......... .Grain rain project, New Century Artists Gallery, New York, NY
............New York-Paris, Space World Gallery, Long Island City, NY
.......... .Object, Hun Gallery, New York, NY
.......... .The reality show, 2X13 Gallery, New York, NY
2006 . Korea now, Hutchins Gallery, Long Island University, NY
.............Faces, Space World Gallery, NY (solo)
2005 . The Hidden Stairway & Misc. Others, The Silk Mill Gallery, NJ
............ Reborn,CPS Gallery, NY
............ Look & See, CPS Gallery, NY
ARTIST REGISTRY
Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2010 .Sculpture Space, Artist-In-Residence, Utica, NY
2009 .Urban Arisist Initiative grant, New York, NY
..Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Artist-In-Residence, Omaha, NE
2008-9 PS 122 Project Studio, New York, NY
2007-8 Henry Street Settlement, Artist-In-Residence, New York, NY
ARTIST TALK
2009 .... .Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2006 .Visiting artist, Parsons school of design, New York, NY