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① Artwork:
Bubble tears
The artist began this work around the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This news had an impact on the final composition, with abstract circles changing from fields of color to beacons of determination and hope. The figures in this painting are entwined in part so that they won’t lose contact with each other.
Combining figuration with abstraction, Mie Yim’s work features saturated colors, dramatic content and thick surface textures that express the artist's notions of beauty. The artist has fragmented memories of hastily migrating to the US from South Korea at a young age. Similarly, Yim's figures are often hazy and fuzzy—ranging from anthropomorphic animals to strange machine-like beings. She also draws from intuitive sources to create natural deities and parasites, as well as characters consumed by vegetal forms and animated compositions floating in space. Yim’s work employs an uncanny juxtaposition of bunny ears and doe eyes with an underlying sense of horror.
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③ Artist:
Mie Yim’s paintings combine saturated colors with dramatic content to express her particular notions of beauty. Her figures—like her childhood memories from South Korea—are often hazy and have mutated over time from anthropomorphic animals into strange machine-like beings.
Mie Yim was born in 1963 in Seoul, South Korea, and lives in New York City, NY. She earned her BFA in Painting from the Philadelphia College of Art in Philadelphia, PA. She spent a year abroad at the Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy.
Yim has mounted solo exhibitions at Villa Magdalena in San Sebastian, Spain; Olympia Gallery in New York City, NY; The Chashama space at the Durst Foundation in New York City, NY; Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn, New York; Lehmann Maupin in New York City; Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York City, NY; and Galerie In Arco in Turin, Italy.
She has participated in group shows at the Drawing Center in New York City, NY; Feature Gallery in New York City, NY; Ise Cultural Foundation in New York City, NY; Mitchell Algus Gallery in New York City, NY; BRIC in Brooklyn, NY; Mark Borghi Gallery in New York City, NY; Johnson County Community College in Kansas City, KS; the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC; Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA; and The Visual and Performing Arts Center at Western Connecticut University in Danbury, CT.
Yim was a recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant, the New York Foundation of the Arts Painting Fellowship, and the AIM fellowship program at the Bronx Museum.
