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Tai Hwa Goh creates intricate, layered installations from printed and cut paper, inspired by organic forms, landscapes, and the relationship between the interior and exterior. Goh’s process pushes the limits of traditional printmaking, as she modifies the characteristics of paper and thin fabric by covering with batik or ironing thin sheets of beeswax onto her prints, deliberately obscuring the underlying images. She then uses techniques like sewing, gluing, and manipulating printed materials to construct intricate, honeycomb-like structures. Found objects seamlessly integrate into the work, reflecting the blending of the personal and the universal, as well as natural and artificial elements.Through this process, the imagery gradually moves away from recognizable forms, and the dense layers serve as a space where nature, memory, and personal experience intertwine. Her installations invite viewers to contemplate the balance between the natural world and human existence, and how everyday moments can reveal deeper insights into our lives.
Julia Kwon sews interpretive Korean textiles, specifically in the form of patchwork bojagi (Korean object-wrapping cloth), to critique received notions of Asiatic femininity and challenge reductive, easily legible identities. Although her bojagi textiles may initially be perceived as traditionally Korean, the patchwork designs are actually derived from urgent contemporary sociopolitical issues and events. Her work moves beyond simply representing minority identities as she aims to comment on the interconnected systems of oppression. Kwon’s practice contests the notion of authenticity and explores the complexities involved in constructing identities within the current framework of cultural hybridity, intersectionality, and the collective pursuit of social justice.
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About the artists
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Tai Hwa Goh
Tai Hwa Goh is is a Korean-born artist who has lived and worked in the New York metropolitan area since 2007, after working in the Washington, D.C. area from 2000 to 2007. She holds an MFA in printmaking and sculpture from the University of Maryland and an MFA in printmaking from Seoul National University. Her layered installations of printed and cut paper use batik and beeswax to obscure her prints and build honeycomb-like structures. She has exhibited at Wave Hill, the Torpedo Factory Art Center, NARS Foundation, the Islip Museum, Gallery Aferro, and Snug Harbor, and has held grants and residencies with the Museum of Art and Design, the Lower East Side Print Shop, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Gold Award of the AHL Visual Art Competition, and her work is in the collections of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the University of Maryland.
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Julia Kwon
Julia Kwon is a Korean American artist whose large patchwork textiles draw on bojagi, the traditional Korean wrapping cloth, to critique stereotypes of Asian femininity, with designs drawn from contemporary sociopolitical events. She holds a BA in studio art from Georgetown University and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Her work has been shown at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cooper Hewitt, and the Museum of International Folk Art, and is held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cooper Hewitt, the New York Public Library, and The Met’s Thomas J. Watson Library. She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre, Headlands Center for the Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, Textile Arts Center, and Vermont Studio Center, among others.
