As her post-graduate residency comes to a close, Jihee Kang talks with moderator Amelia Hankin about her experiences during her time at the Torpedo Factory. Hear her speak about how Alexandria inspired her work and process, and her thoughts on the future of art in the DMV.
6:30 Reception, 7:30 Talk
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Jihee Kang creates irrational juxtapositions and modifies the scale of her work in such a way that she brings lightheartedness and humor to her soft sculptures. Her work, which is quite detailed and labor-intensive, examines issues of dualism and identity, a product of being split between two cultures, Korean and American. Her current series focuses on the transformation of an object from one shape to another. During her residency, she further explored identity issues through playful three-dimensional works, and hosted a series of weekly workshops for visitors.
Jihee Kang
Jihee Kang was born in South Korea and currently lives and works in Washington, D.C. She completed a BFA with distinction at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design in 2013. She is enrolled in the MFA program at American University and will complete her thesis in the spring of 2016. Kang works predominantly in sculpture and her work crosses media including installation, painting, drawing, and printmaking. She has been the recipient of the International Prize “Marche d’ Acqua” Fabriano Watercolor 2012, presented by the Museo della arta e della Filigrana (Museum of Paper and Watermark) in collaboration with InArte Fabriano in Fabriano, Italy, a UNESCO Creative City.
Amelia Hankin
Amelia Hankin received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited at the Janet Turner Print Museum (Chico, CA), Ellen Miller Gallery (Boston, MA), Eastern Oregon University, University of Richmond Museum (Richmond, VA), Ridderhof Martin Gallery at the University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA), 55 Mercer Gallery (New York, NY), International Print Center New York (New York, NY), the 808 Gallery at Boston University (Boston, MA), The Chazan Gallery (Providence, RI), Columbia College (Columbia, MO), The Xavier University Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), and the RISD Museum of Art (Providence, RI). She received an artist’s travel grant to study Eastern woodblock printmaking techniques at Kyoto Seika University in 2005. Since then, Hankin has attended residencies at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, the Women’s Studio Workshop, and Vermont Studio Center. Collections include, Fidelity Investments, the Seaport Hotel in Boston, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, and NIH as well as numerous private collections. She has taught printmaking, design, and drawing at American University, George Mason University, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Hankin is represented by the Miller-Yezerski Gallery in Boston.
