오간색 (Ogansaek) is a collaborative artist book featuring hanji, the paper of Korea. Working with the theme of ogansaek (violet, teal, ochre, green, and burnt orange)—colors blended from the five traditional Korean colors known as obangsaek (red, white, black, blue, and yellow)—we invited five Korean American artists to this project as a way to explore contemporary themes of diasporic culture and historic symbols found in East Asian philosophy. Each artist received an ogansaek color and enough hanji to produce a series of 10″h x 8″w prints, which are shown below. 

Featured artists include: Sun Young Kang, 祥遇 (상우 Sang-woo); HyeYoon Song, rite of passage; Julia Chon, At the Center of the Universe; Rochelle Youk, 단/Dan; and Robert Choe-Henderson, a/Void.

The five prints are bound together in a book, which measures 10”h x 8 5/8”w x 5/8”d and comes in a custom archival phase box. The edition size is 30, of which 23 are for sale. Each of the five prints is also available for individual sale in a limited edition of 15.