Hope Wang
She/Her/Hers
Hope Wang is a Chicago-based artist, arts facilitator, and poet. Contending with sloppy traces of human activity around sites of industrial labour, her work considers the ways architectural spaces become artifacts of memory. She likes to joke that she creates geo-caches of public places she has cried in. She hosts and operates LMRM, a floor loom rental resource for Chicago fiber artists. She received her BFA (2018) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a 2021 recipient of the gener8tor Art Accelerator Program Grant. She has attended the Digital Weaving Lab Residency at Praxis Fiber Workshop; The Weaving Mill WARP Residency; and Spudnik Press Cooperative Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at Ignition Project Space (Chicago, IL); Gallery No One (Chicago, IL); Chicago Art Department (Chicago, IL); Sullivan Galleries (Chicago, IL); and Zhou B Art Center (Chicago, IL), amongst others.
throwing a short glance in the sliver between the glass barred against the warm air
Handwoven on the TC2 Jacquard loom with cotton and wool and polyester
30 x 27”
2021
in the sliver between the wobbly edges of brown paper sheets
Screenprint, cyanotype on Rives BFK paper mounted on mdf and acrylic
8.5 x 6”
2019
in the sliver between the glass barred against the warm air
Embossed screenprint, cyanotype on Rives BFK paper mounted on mdf
9 x 7”
2019
throwing a short glance in the sliver between the glass barred against the warm air
Handwoven on the TC2 Jacquard loom with cotton and tencel and wool
28 x 15"
2018