Artists
Kloe Kang
Artist Bio
Kloe Kang was born and raised in Korea and moved to Hawai‘i in 1981. Kloe studied art (MFA, 1998) and architecture (D.Arch, 2012) at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UHM), and has been teaching at the UHM and Kapiolani Community College (KCC) since 1999.
Kloe is known for her oil paintings and drawing projects, which have been regularly featured in numerous venues including Hawai‘i’s local, national and international art exhibitions, including Hawai‘i State Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art (HI), San Diego Art Institute Museum of Living Artist (CA), the Los Angeles Korean Cultural Center, Korean Embassy in Washington D.C., AIR Gallery (NY), Howard County Center for Arts (MD), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Japan, and CICA Museum in Korea.
Artist Statement
Kloe’s work explores true meanings of “home” and secrets of familiar things in a new perspective that is innate to our time and place. Visual images, such as photos or drawings, invoke our remembered or forgotten memories. With her ‘Drawing Project: Blue Cities’, she attempts to re-create the city by responding to people’s memories of the city, intimate inner cities of Honolulu, where people, cultures, and customs mix, largely in spirit of tolerance and celebration.
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City #2
City #1
City #3 (Pukana la)
City #4 (Pukana la)