If Brooklyn artist (and former SoCal gal) Caroline Hwang's work was a television show, it would have to be My So-Called Life. A translation for those of you who weren't obsessed with the delightfully-angsty Angela Chase back in the day: She makes totally vulnerable, easy to relate to pieces that will tug at the toughest of heart strings.

"Salvage," her new solo show at Giant Robot, features Hwang's latest work which marries the craft aesthetic of quilting and sewing with nautical themes such as color-block flags. According to the press release, the exhibition is about "searching for something lost and preventing further loss in adverse circumstance: picking up the pieces—glimmers of hope, pieces of oneself—and starting anew."

In other words, the use of cozy materials and rich color lends a certain warmth to lovelorn, doe-eyed heroines who inhabit her world of summer camp crushes gone bad. "I I think if you make art that comes from the heart and you stand by it, it'll be good to one person or another," she has said of her work. "I know that sounds cheesy, but it is something I believe."

With pieces already featured in Paper Magazine, Swindle Quarterly and The New York Times, Hwang is definitely an artist to keep your eye on. Check out her show and then score one of the prints available through this lovable cheese ball's online store before they're all gone!

Giant Robot is located at 618 Shrader Street, (415) 876-4773.

- Caroline Stanley

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