Within and Without

source: eunhyekang

EunHye Kang is the Korean-born installation artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Kang recently graduated with a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2013. Kang received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2010 and her BS received from Seoul Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea in 2006. Kang creates marvelous geometric installation in architectural spaces. She uses lines as a way to decompose the space. Also, she tries to create negative volume by using achromatic lines. With concepts of division and proportion, she aims to represent abstract shape and contour in the spaces. Kang is currently involved as a recent graduate resident and studio member at the Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, New York.
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source: eunhyekang

My line work started from the geometric and abstract patterns which are inspired from the lines of Korean alphabet, ‘Han-geul’ at first. Because of Han-geul’s geometric and modern patterns with vertical lines, horizontal lines, squares, triangles, and circles, it has strong potential as a design instrument.

ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ,ㅅ,ㅇ,ㅈ,ㅊ,ㅋ,ㅍ,ㅌ,ㅎ(consonant sound-14),

ㅏ, ㅑ, ㅓ, ㅕ,ㅗ, ㅛ, ㅜ, ㅠ,ㅡ, ㅣ(vowel sound-10).

During last several years, my two-dimensional works have developed to the installation work in the wide space and architecture in scale. In the spaces that gave great inspiration to me, I represented the inspiration as an abstract pattern. My interest in the pattern was moved deeper into the interest in the line, further I focused on the “point” comprising the line. As a result, I attempted to create the work starting from the points. While working with space, I began to use the lines as a way to decompose the space.

Recently, I am especially focusing on creating negative volume by using the achromatic lines, representing the space by division and proportion, and making the shape and contour. The strings give volume, movement, gravity and density. I am curious to imagine the abstract form in the empty space and actually do it in the space. They create numerous faces and optical illusion. I am trying to make a live op-art installation in the space with strings and build my imagination in the space.