Do-Ho Suh

When Do-Ho Suh encounters a problem, he likes to address it by making art. To make this art, Suh uses media such as paint, pen, fabric, and dog tags. 

What interests Suh a great deal is the concept of public and personal space. He explores this notion in his art by creating these tiny figures and placing them next to each other with the least amount of space between them as possible. Suh's pieces are also about the individual and how unique we all really are. His works delve into the collective as well and how our differences could be lost when being part of a mass group of people. 

Suh's representative art deals with a lot of repetition, such as his dog tag armor piece. This piece was constructed of a multitude of dog tags that even spread throughout the floor. The majority of Suh's works are also monochromatic with line defining certain shapes, like with is fabric houses. Light plays a factor as well in Suh's fabric houses. Due to the transparent material they're made of, the light give his houses a glowing quality. 

Being from a completely different country, Suh makes his art and depicts issues that are unique to where he used to live. It is his hope that his audience would see things in a new way because of his art.

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"Do-Ho Suh." Art21. PBS, n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2014.