David Hwang was born in Pyung Yang, Korea.
His birth name "Myung Duk" means, Brigh-Myung, Giant-Duk.
As a young man, his mother told him that his grandfather wanted
him to live with those meaning in his heart. His family escaped to Seoul Korea in 1951, the year Korea Civil War began.
He continued to live there until 1981.
His father was a businessman and his mother was an Asian homemaker who loved to embroider. He felt, his mothers influence that encouraged him to become an artist. As a young boy, age about 10 through as a student in the middle school, he loved to draw.
He began taking art classes and won many national competitions while he was in a middle and high school. Once completed grade school, he continued his secondary education at the University studying fine art.
The medium he is always working one is Watercolor, Pastel, Oil, Acrylic and Oriental Painting. His other medium is print making and those mediums are Wood Block Printing, Etching and Serigraph
(Silk Screen). He also loves to take photographs as well and the photography has been his long time fond of hobby.
He has affinity for landscape painting as he has a great love for mountain. He enjoyed rock climbing and ice climbing at his twenties and thirties. After graduating from University, he entered an army. Once he completed his service, he opened a professional sporting gear store and should paint in his spare time not as an occupation but to feed his soul. At that time in Korea, due to the economy, it was impossible for him to support himself as an artist.
In 1981, he moved to US and he was hired as an art director and a manager of a company and promoted to a vice president soon. In the art field, he immersing himself in the American style paintings to the art market and Galleries, working closely with CEO's, Designers and Sales teams from all over the states,
Consultants on many prestigious projects.
In 1989, He opened his own art Studio/Wholesale business in Los Angeles and run business until 2004, Moved to Lake Tahoe, started this Gallery. Art collectors and Art lovers can always meet him in person and also watch him painting in the Studio.
EXHIBITIONS
High Point International Show : 1989 ~ 2004
Art Expo : Los Angeles Convention center in 1998
Art Caravan Show : Long beach Convention Center 1996
World Wide Publishing :
Bruce McGaw Publishing Company
Grand Image Ltd
New York Graphic Society
