David Jang: Prequel to 2018

Sep 21, 2015 to Oct 29, 2015

Location: Huntley University Art Gallery

About the Exhibition Program Schedule The Artist Installation Pieces

David Jang prequel to 2018

Jang’s exacting, fanciful and obsessive re-appropriation of common materials articulates the countervailing forces inherent in what is considered “the everyday” within our world. Through a special transformation of “everyday” materials into kinetically-engineered and freestanding sculpture, he brings out poignant thoughts relating to expansion and contraction, perfection and imperfection, force and balance, having and lacking. He deconstructs, reprograms and re-constitutes industrial and commercial cast-offs to reveal new relationships. Coded also into each of these objects, and the materials from which they are composed, are its life’s instructions. He examines these codes and the continuum of the objects, to discover the hidden subtexts and hierarchies they uphold. Ultimately, Jang’s work is about survival, or what he calls ‘life tactic’. In its performative aspect, he seeks to establish intimacy with the consumer material, transforming it into “machines that are at once hilarious, frightening, and charming.”

Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 3:00 pm-6:00 pm

Opening Reception: David Jang: Prequel to 2018

Korean-born David Jang combines repurposed material with engineering and design to create monumental, humorous, and thought-provoking sculptures. Jang is considered one of the fastest up-and-coming young artists, garnering nationwide attention.

David Jang

David Jang is a Los Angeles—based sculptor known for inventive kinetic installations employing hacked consumer electronics and subverted household appliances. He was born in Seoul, South Korea and received a BFA from College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. Jang has been shown internationally and nationally: Nagasaki Museum of Fine Arts (Nagasaki, Japan); Pleiades Gallery (New York); Heritage Art Center (Manila, Philippines); Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA (Los Angeles); Laguna Art Museum; Municipal Art Gallery (Los Angeles); Palos Verdes Art Center; Los Angeles Art Association; Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion (San Francisco); Locust Project (Miami); and in the Downtown Art Center Gallery (Los Angeles). Jang has been featured in several arts publications: Art Ltd Magazine; Huffington Post Arts; Korean American Magazine; Art Pulse Magazine; Artillery Magazine; KCET Artbound; Korea Times; Coagula Art Magazine; California Contemporary Art Magazine; Art Week LA; and in the Los Angeles Art Show Catalog.

Photo Caption: Portrait of David Jang