Born in Seoul, South Korea, the Korean-American Artist Joohyun Kang has been active in artistic activities, traveling between New York and Korea, after completing a master's degree in printmaking and Western painting at Pratt Institute in 1993. Through her work, the artist aims to portray the process of living an organic life within the perception that humans are limited beings, looking at nature as a medium of expression. When viewing the journey of life through nature, the artist depicts the desire to live, endure, and integrate, similar to how nature repeats creation and destruction amidst change and resistance. By incorporating conscious and unconscious dots and lines into her work, like the unexpected encounters and events that happen in life, the artist creates a process where the generated spots collide, overlap, and achieve balance, revealing landscapes and nature. The images of these landscapes are visualized through the association of memories, whether they are scenes observed in reality or landscapes that exist in dreams or the inner self. The small units that form the paintings are abstract, drawn with numerous layers that cannot be fully grasped up close, but when viewed as a whole, they become landscape paintings. Joohyun Kang's landscape paintings, which possess both abstraction and unique atmospheres, exist simultaneously as abstractions and representations.

In the face of the perspective on life and death, humans are always aware of their limited existence. Looking at nature within this perception, I wanted to express the process of living life as a creature using nature as a medium in my artwork. When reflecting on the journey of life through nature, I aimed to capture the resemblance between nature's desire to survive, endure, and integrate amidst change and resistance, and our own lives. Just as numerous unexpected encounters and events happen in life, I introduced conscious and unconscious dots and lines into my work, creating a process where the generated spots collide, overlap, and achieve balance, revealing landscapes and nature. The images of these landscapes are visualized through the association of memories, whether they are scenes observed in reality or landscapes that exist in dreams or the inner self.

Space776 exhibits early to mid-career artists who work in a variety of mediums ranging from live multimedia performance art to traditional oil painting. The gallery accommodates artists from around the globe, taking their works to local and international art fairs such as Volta New York, Volta Basel, Art Miami, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, and Art Busan. 
Space776 was founded in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2013. In 2020, the gallery relocated to its current residence at 37-39 Clinton Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Space776 also opened a location in Seoul, South Korea in 2020 in accordance with the gallery’s mission to promote the international exchange between local New York artists and the Korean artistic sphere. 

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