Jaejoon Jang
I live and work in Baltimore, MD. I completed an M.F.A. and B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Before studying art, I studied mechanical engineering in Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea. I participated in the Vermont Studio Center Residency (VT), MASS MoCA Residency (MA), Carrie Able Gallery Artists In Residence (NY) and NYFA Immigrant Artist Program. I explore collective references and challenge conceptual understanding. My work is simple, intuitive, and light, but still humorous and poetic. I transform familiar objects into sources of surprise and humour. My artwork involves the careful and deliberate use of everyday materials. The objects reflect experiences, phenomena, and reflections in a determined moment. Any reflection from a socio-political, philosophical, scientific, or whatever point of view refers to them. Using a ready-made (found object) is a similar transition of what we can see in writing a poem. I am interested in the fact of the different kinds of experiences people have in life and therefore attribute to objects. To me, the ready-made with connotations and narratives is very inspiring. My interventions toward the object are so subtle that the artist’s gesture can hardly be discovered, but many elements in my work function as open metaphors or narratives. These collected familiar objects are deprived of their original purpose and realigned together to create new compositions. Through this process of alteration, the elements of my work are transformed beyond their origin or value, and are interpreted in a manner not easily translated into language.
Available for:
Installation, Object art
