Hyun Jung Jung

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Hyun Jung Jung is a Korean artist based in Portland, Oregon. She mixes traditional textiles techniques with found objects and other mediums to create scenes that evoke emotions and memories. Jung explores how materials can serve as vessels for personal belongings, cultural resonance, and collective memories. By recontextualizing everyday materials, she invites the viewers to consider how objects and materials accrue meaning through use, intimacy, and care. In Jung’s recent work, the softness, familiarity, and comfort of domestic materials are expressed through cushioned canvases-suggestive of a pillow or home textiles-as a mean to explore notions of belonging, memory, and home. Jung received her BFA in Textiles from Rhod Island School of Design in 2017.

Photo credit Mario Gallucci