Hong Seon Jang

EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: ALUMNI

Hong Seon Jang

I explore the recognition of surroundings by transforming everyday objects into new forms. I emphasize specific aspects of common products, found objects, and industrial objects that surround us and I suggest a potential opening for them in the art and socio political context. This process redefines the function, role, and meaning that we commonly recognize with them. By incorporating the objects, I introduce the idea of distortion and the subversion of traditional meanings while proposing a discussion about the object's value, and the subsequent value of the time, history, place, and event that the object is meant to commemorate in everyday life.

EFA Studio Program

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program

The EFA Studio Program is housed in eight floors of the EFA building located in Midtown Manhattan’s Fashion District. The Studio Program maintains artists studios of various size and shape for up to 80 member-artists. One of three programs at EFA, the members of the EFA Studios program are part of a community that includes The Project Space and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. The Studio Program provides artists the rare opportunity to work in a professional arts community inside Manhattan and in close proximity to the city’s primary gallery districts. EFA facilitates interaction with dealers, curators and critics to provide continued development for member-artists. Unique among studio programs in New York City, EFA is one of the few remaining arts organizations still providing long-term workspace in Manhattan.

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