After many hours of careful assemblage, “Still Tangled” debuted at Studios Inc on August's First Friday, 2024. The exhibition showcases work by former artist in residence Susan White, and revists her 2021 solo exhibition “The Untangling”. Locally harvested honey locust thorns are scattered across the room in heaps and strung up above the ceiling. The thorns are painted in many colors; gold, silver, red, white, and blue. Accompanying them are pyrographs made up of thousands of tiny dots, holes meditatively burned into paper. Using a wood-burning tool, the artist strategically burns small holes into the thorns and sticks them together like pieces of a puzzle. Tension is the glue, although sometimes actual wood glue comes in handy. 

Hong Chun Zhang’s “Hair of the Dragon” is on view at Volland Foundation through September 22nd, 2024.