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Our ubiquitous connection with these materials, such as styrofoam cups, potato chip bags and resin coated paper towels, makes Jang's work easily acceptable.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

Jang's "contraptions" are now no longer stylized displays of flaring raw power, but instead semi-mechanical embodiments of the viewer, forging associations with the essential dynamics of the human body: vibration, flow, breath and contractions.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

Jang's "contraptions" are now no longer stylized displays of flaring raw power, but instead semi-mechanical embodiments of the viewer, forging associations with the essential dynamics of the human body: vibration, flow, breath and contractions.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

David B. Jang: New Works | Five years ago, Jang's early works were best described as labor intensive constructions, in the spirit of Richard Serra and Beverly Pepper, focused on overpowering people with their muscle and control while fixated on representing the aesthetics of their own processes.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

Our ubiquitous connection with these materials, such as styrofoam cups, potato chip bags and resin coated paper towels, makes Jang's work easily acceptable.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

And while Jang reconstitutes these materials into various "machines," unlike real machinery--which tends to keep people at a distance with its heavy-handedness and operational protocols--Jang's contraptions are infinitely more approachable, almost natural even.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

David B. Jang: New Works | Five years ago, Jang's early works were best described as labor intensive constructions, in the spirit of Richard Serra and Beverly Pepper, focused on overpowering people with their muscle and control while fixated on representing the aesthetics of their own processes.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

And while Jang reconstitutes these materials into various "machines," unlike real machinery--which tends to keep people at a distance with its heavy-handedness and operational protocols--Jang's contraptions are infinitely more approachable, almost natural even.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

David B. Jang: New Works | Five years ago, Jang's early works were best described as labor intensive constructions, in the spirit of Richard Serra and Beverly Pepper, focused on overpowering people with their muscle and control while fixated on representing the aesthetics of their own processes.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011

Our ubiquitous connection with these materials, such as styrofoam cups, potato chip bags and resin coated paper towels, makes Jang's work easily acceptable.

Bill Bush: Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6 - 12) Bill Bush 2011