Drawn into Light: Works with Paper by Imi Hwangbo
By: Lilly Wei Second Street Gallery 2004 Everyone has a vision of perfection, don't you think? Agnes Martin Imi Hwangbo transfixes and is transfixed by detail. In this group of remarkable drawings on hand-cut mylar, the artist begins with a visual unit and multiplies it, using repetition as a method and, beyond that, a kind of wondrous madness. Through sheer accumulation—and a nod to other cultures, to modernism, post-feminist ideologies and recent strategies of hybridization—these units become more than the sum of their parts, the quantitative translated into the psychological, the phenomenal into the immanent, cool objectivity into stubborn, passionate…