Annie Han
Seattle, WA
Korean born Annie Han has been working as Lead Pencil Studio since 1997 with Daniel Mihalyo, working in the area of installation architecture and fine art projects at the architectural scale. With a professional degree in architecture and training in ceramics, photography, sculpture and drawing, Han and Mihalyo explore spatial conditions in the built environment and the properties within architecture that influence human behavior. Their artwork and installations have been exhibited at the Henry Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boise Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Temple Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Exploratorium Museum, the American Academy in Rome, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Center on Contemporary Art, Lawrimore Project, Aqua Miami and the Prague Quadrennial. Han and Mihalyo are recipients of the Founder’s Rome Prize for Architecture 2007/2008, Architecture League of NY Emerging Voice 2006 and Van Alen Institute New York Prize 2010. Awards and residencies include the Artist Trust Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts and Center for Land Use Interpretation. Han is also a Board Member of Creative Capital.
Maryhill Double
Annie Han has been working as Lead Pencil Studio since 1997 with Daniel Mihalyo, working in the area of installation architecture and fine art projects at the architectural scale.
Artist BioDaniel Mihalyo has been working as Lead Pencil Studio since 1997 with Annie Han, working in the area of installation architecture and fine art projects at the architectural scale.
Artist BioMaryhill Double is a collaborative site-specific installation at the Maryhill Museum on Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio built a full-scale architectural double of the museum using common materials such as scaffolding and nylon construction netting in uncommon ways. Intending to invert and distort the viewer’s sense of spatial definition, the work is interactive, allowing spectators to ascend the scaffolding stairways, circumnavigate the building and cross the installation space by walking over the nylon netting.
Maryhill Double was completed in 2006. It is open to the public on private ranch across the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.
Daniel Mihalyo
Seattle, WA
Seattle-based artist Daniel Mihalyo has been working as Lead Pencil Studio since 1997 with Annie Han, working in the area of installation architecture and fine art projects at the architectural scale. With professional training in architecture, ceramics, photography, sculpture and drawing, Han and Mihalyo explore spatial conditions in the built environment and the properties within architecture that influence human behavior. Their artwork and installations have been exhibited at the Henry Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boise Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Temple Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Exploratorium Museum, the American Academy in Rome, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Center on Contemporary Art, Lawrimore Project, Aqua Miami and the Prague Quadrennial. Han and Mihalyo are recipients of the Founder’s Rome Prize for Architecture 2007/2008, Architecture League of NY Emerging Voice 2006 and Van Alen Institute New York Prize 2010. Awards and residencies include the Artist Trust Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts and Center for Land Use Interpretation.