Jazz and Blues / Love 3

Hyong Nam Ahn

Jazz and Blues / Love 3

wood, oil, canvas, neon

Interested in the ever-changing nature of time and space, Hyong Nam Ahn searches for visual idioms capable of expressing spatiotemporal dynamics. His work, expressionistic in quality, draws upon natural phenomena and sources such as moonlight and migrating birds. Further, by using neon lights, sound, and other materials, the artist expresses his inner thoughts and feelings about the changing relationship between humans and technology—the latter a means invented, developed, and used to conquer nature.

Hyong Nam Ahn (b. 1955, Korea) earned his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980.
Informed by Kinetic Art in the 1960s, his sculpture integrates lights, sound, and movements. Ahn has received numerous commissions for a public sculpture from notable institutions or corporations such as McDonald Corporation in Kirkland, WA; The Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art & Culture, Baltimore, MD; and McCormick Place Donnelly Hall World Convention Center, Chicago, IL. He designed the Main Stadium Torch Tower for Seoul 88 Olympic Games. He presented a number of one-person exhibitions at prestigious museums including Ohio University Art Museum, Oxford, OH; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and Lawrence University, Appleton, WI.