Two Love Tree,
Button & Pins on wood Panel, 120 x 270 cm
About the artwork
Ran Hwang creates grand installations out of common, low-key materials such as buttons, sequins, crystals, and pins in quantities of thousands, hence producing a scale that has the capacity to pleasantly overwhelm. The artist creates dynamic subjects and sceneries that are not commonly associated with these cold, plastic, industrial materials, and takes to greater heights things that are often taken for granted and usually utilized for their function and not their aesthetic qualities. With this technique and concept, Ran Hwang demonstrates how the smallest can generate the grandest and how the common can produce the unique.
About the artist
Ran Hwang graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and subsequently went on to attain her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at the Graduate School of Arts Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. This Korean-born artist currently resides and practices her craft in New York, and is best-known for creating intricate, large-scale wall installations with exquisite materials from the fashion industry such as beads, buttons, pins and thread. A multiple award winner, Ran Hwang has completed many residencies and her works have been exhibited across the globe, including Korea, Switzerland, USA and France, and collected by distinguished hotels, museums and companies.