Imi Hwangbo at Miller Block Gallery
Art in America
By: Ann Wilson Lloyd Art in America, March 2008 Imi Hwangbo's three-dimensional drawings consist of aligned layers of Mylar -- sometimes as many as 30. Each layer is hand cut with incredible precision in all-over stylized floral or geometric designs and mounted with slight spacing in between layers, to create delicate sculptural reliefs. Hwangbo bases these works on drawings translated into digital prints. The Mylar sheets are printed with colored ink, which thinly outlines the edges of the cutouts. During the cutting process, each petal, line or shape diminishes in tiny increments from one layer to the next, so that,…