Agnes Hong, Two Hundred Hours of Care, 2025 Ultravelvet, plywood, and wire mesh 70 x 82 inches
LOS ANGELES
Untangled: A Journey Through Layers
Dec 06 - 21, 2025
Opening Reception: Sat, Dec 2, 7-10 pm
Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA is pleased to present Agnes Hong’s Untangled: A Journey Through Layers, a solo exhibition curated by Sua Kim.
Agnes Hong examines the often invisible labor of caregiving through tactile processes and repetitive gestures. Drawing from her personal experience about the profound labor of motherhood, her practice reflects on the persistence and devotion inherent in acts of care.
Hong’s material vocabulary, encompassing wood, ultrasuede, velvet, and clay, deepens the process-driven approach. She gravitates toward soft yet resilient fabrics, engaging methods that evoke meditative and cyclical rhythms. By navigating uncertainty and temporality, she aims to create a contemplative space for growth, healing, and transformation.
Hong positions uncertainty as a central condition of the creative process. She explores waiting as a state of resilience, vulnerability, and renewal, revealing the emotional labor embedded within the act of nurturing. Untangled reflects the layered complexities of care, love, and endurance, illuminating the evolving nature of human connection.
Agnes Hong is a visual artist, b. 1983, Seoul, South Korea, lives and works in Los Angeles, California, working with painting, sculpture, and ceramics. She received an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, California, in May 2025. She earned a BFA in Studio Art from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, in 2009. Her work is included in the permanent collection at Dallas College, Dallas, Texas. Her work has been exhibited at Material Projects, Los Angeles, California (2025); Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2025); Gastov East Gallery, Long Beach, California (2025); Pollock Gallery, Dallas, Texas (2009); 500 X Gallery, Dallas, Texas (2007); The Forum Gallery, Dallas, Texas (2006). She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Sua Kim is a Korean artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. Kim received her BFA in fine art, with an emphasis in painting, from Otis College of Art and Design and is now an MFA candidate in the School of Arts at the California Institute of the Arts. She is a gallery assistant and curator for Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally at venues such as Good Mother Gallery, Bolsky Gallery, AP Gallery and Leesoo Gallery (South Korea), and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan).
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