Category: Mixed Media

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ran Hwang

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Ran Hwang is a sculptural artist primarily known for her mixed-media work with buttons, beads, pins, and thread.

Born in the Republic of Korea in 1960, Hwang currently lives and works in both Seoul and New York City. 

 

Hwang creates large iconic figures that embody her preoccupation with the nature of cyclical life, non-visibility and the beauty of a transient moment.

The artist creates iconic figures that embody her preoccupation with the nature of cyclical life, non-visibility and the beauty of transient glamor.

Her installation works often crosses three-dimensional boundaries.Although her work often references classical Asian motifs, Hwang reinterprets these images through her medium, redefining her cultural heritage.

Hwang is best known for her large-scale wall installations in which buttons, beads, pins, and threads on wood panels form images of falling blossoms, vases, Buddhas, and birds.

To construct much of her work, Hwang creates paper buttons by hand, hammering each one approximately twenty-five times until it is secure.

Her process requires the utmost concentration and discipline, recalling the meditative state practiced by Zen masters.

More of Ran Hwang‘s amazing work can be found at https://www.ranhwang.com/ and http://www.leilahellergallery.com/artists/ran-hwang.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery on Friday — Gabriel Dawe

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Gabriel Dawe (born 1973) is a Mexican-born artist living in Dallas, Texas whose work is based on investigations of the visible spectrum of light.

He has gained renown for his large-scale Plexus series of installations of sewing thread, though he also creates works on paper as well as other media.

In search for creative freedom he started experimenting and creating artwork, which eventually led him to explore textiles and embroidery — activities traditionally associated with women and which were forbidden for a boy growing up in Mexico.

Because of this, his work is subversive of notions of masculinity and machismo that are so ingrained in his culture. 

By working with thread and textiles, Dawe’s work has evolved into creating large-scale installations with thread, creating environments that deal with notions of social constructions and their relation to evolutionary theory and the self-organizing force of nature.

More of Gabriel Dawe’s amazing thread/string work can be found at http://www.gabrieldawe.com/.