Sand Paintings
January 9 – 20, 1990
Exhibition
About the Program
Sand is a symbol of the earth. It is a connector between land and sea. The symbol of the sand paintings depicts the merging of two opposing elements: light and darkness, soft and hard, male and female, and so on. There is a history of sand paintings in both Japanese and Southwestern American Indigenous cultures and both use them to evoke spiritual energy. David Hwang's works in Sand Paintings seem to spring out of these traditions and stress the spiritual in modern life. The paintings form an installation on the floor of the gallery, a circle, and each of the pieces represent a polarity of opposites which together form a whole to which speaks to metaphysical concerns. Sand Paintings was his first solo exhibition.Artist
David HwangIdentifier
1990.0109 SANCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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