Untethered at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Button & Pins on wood Panel, 4267 cm
About the artwork
Ran Hwang, a native of South Korea who has studios in Seoul and New York, recognizes the necessity of the ubiquitous objects, and she demonstrates and elevates both their utility and their beauty in her work. This project, an immense wall installation titled “Untethered” on display at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, is indicative of much of her work. Intricate and delicate, the piece stretches 140 feet along the wall, featuring birds made of some 50,000 buttons, even more pins, and miles of magnificently colored threads in hues of red, pink, and white.
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.