Exhibition Reception - The Light That Grows Here

About the Exhibit

The Light That Grows Here features new textile works honoring the healing spirit of native Texas plants by multidisciplinary artist and weaver Robin Kang. Rooted in folklore, herbal traditions, and digital innovation, Kang’s Jacquard-loom weavings merge botanical motifs with motherboard-like designs, exploring the ties between nature, technology, and spirituality.

Using plant-dyed fibers, iridescent synthetics, and digital sketches, Kang crafts textiles that bridge ancestral weaving traditions with contemporary computation. Her work draws from studies with global master weavers and ceremonial plant practices, transforming weaving into ritual. The Light That Grows Here invites reflection on craft’s power to reconnect us with ecology and the unseen wisdom of flora.

About the Artist

Texas-born Robin Kang merges ancestral textile traditions with digital innovation, using a Jacquard loom to weave botanical and circuit-like motifs. Her work explores the interplay of nature, technology, and sacred knowledge, informed by global weaving practices and initiations into Amazonian shamanic lineages.

A 2017 NYFA Fellow, she has exhibited at the Queens Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia, and others. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and ArtNews. Kang holds an MFA from SAIC and has taught at RISD, Parsons, and Tyler School of Art.

Image credit

Robin Kang