David Chang Interview at Onishi Gallery

Onishi Gallery is pleased to present David Chang, a Korean-American artist based in New York City, explor­ing the art of west­ern cal­lig­ra­phy within a con­tem­po­rary con­text. Using hermeneu­tics, a study of the the­ory of inter­pre­ta­tion, as his tool for inves­ti­ga­tion and draw­ing on the prin­ci­ples of east­ern and west­ern cal­lig­ra­phy, he cre­ates a par­a­digm based on the trans­for­ma­tive process of sacred text, space and ritual.

David Chang's art merges east­ern and west­ern cal­lig­ra­phy with a philo­soph­i­cal pur­suit per­tain­ing specif­i­cally to text based work. Using tools and tech­niques from west­ern cal­lig­ra­phy (the Ital­ian human­ist doc­u­ments, the Ger­man expres­sion­ist stroke and the Eng­lish round­hand), he has spent the last ten years devel­op­ing his unique style or stroke. He has pur­sued his art edu­ca­tion by seek­ing out and study­ing with west­ern cal­lig­ra­phy mas­ters over the years; most notably, John Stevens, Brody Neuen­schwan­der and Denis Brown.

He was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971. This past fall, he was a part of a group exhi­bi­tion with the Soci­ety of Scribes at the National Arts Club in New York. He has also been involved with sev­eral group exhi­bi­tions internationally.

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