Emily Hwang is an emerging artist at the School of Visual Arts majoring in fine arts. Through her investigations with media studies, she acquired knowledge of design software and mixed media.

With the accumulated interest of collages and abstract compositions, Emily plays with the microscopic views of her own hybrid spaces. The process of image making is fundamental as the importance of the images doesn’t rely on each individual image, but the combined images act as an outlet into narrative. 

Personal photographs are manipulated through computer software to form digital collages printed on artist canvas fabric. Layers of representational images are compressed into a single layer as flatness is emphasized within the work. Along with the appliance of representational images to compose surrealist landscapes, the grid and computational elements derive from screenshots of the forms of the earth made through a digital modeling software. Then, traditional mediums such as acrylic paint are layered on top of the images, but appear embedded onto the surfaces of the canvas.

Emily’s artwork is a contemporary approach to the concept of making unrelated things related and the utilization of the unfamiliar and bizarre images to bring a sense of familiarity. The chaotic scenes cooperate with the grid that creates a sense of order.