INCEPTION GALLERY PRESENTS "DE FIL EN AIGUILLE" OF RAN HWANG FROM 19th NOVEMBER 2014 TO 31th JANUARY 2015
«I create large icons such as a Buddha or a traditional vase, using materials from the fashion industry".
Born in Pusan and trained as a realist painter at Chung Ang University in Seoul, Ran Hwang moved to New York in 1997 to attend the School of Visual Arts. After studying, she worked in an embroidery design studio in the garment district where her drawings were scanned into a computer, generating gorgeous machine-made patterns. While working there she noticed boxes and boxes of unused buttons, stacked in a corner. She asked if she could use them and was told, “Take as much as you like."Hwang soon began incorporating buttons, first into small scale collages and later in room-sized installations.
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