Gweny Jin is a trained architect, designer and maker currently teaching full-time at Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. She has taught full-time at Pratt Institute as a teaching fellow, and at Rhode Island School of Design while being a graduate student there. Jin explores drawings, painting, sculptural and installation work – all with an architectural lens – to articulate art interventions that elevate the unique placeness of ordinary space. Jin’s working process focuses on using mixed craft and techniques as the pidgin language of making, incorporating time as a factor, and adopting light and shadow as a designed element to interact with tangible forms.

Jin’s Residency project will engage audiences to experience shifting space and time in a site-specific installation based on the architectural features of the ARTS Southeast building. Starting from observation of architectural elements of the site – such as solid and void relationships, movement of natural light, scale, proportion and materials of given elements like doors, windows, walls and floors – Gweny will identify the “ingredients” for her abstraction, recreation, and representation in her own tectonic language, as if to make a drawing in space. She will experiment with the three-dimensional linguistic tectonics that most reflect the uniqueness of the ON::View Residency and its local context.