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530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
The mixed media artwork of Korean artist Yumi Song is rooted in childhood nostalgia. Song summons fond memories of the city where she grew up, Mokpo, a cozy city embraced by the sea and the mountains. Song recalls the scent of her father’s oil paintings and doodling under the warm sunlight, often going out to stand by the dark blue sea to embrace the tidal flats. These feelings, along with various Korean cultures and traditions like dance, martial arts, and calligraphy, color Song’s art. Her rhythmic works evoke the curves of martial arts and draw upon the approaches of calligraphy and meditation, bursting with movement and dynamism. The repetition of spirals and curves in her work connect the historical past to the present and the future. Song recruits the idea of history’s linearity and its development in waves. She impresses the influence of her own hand to evoke this within her mixed media creations. Song has held numerous group and solo exhibitions of her work, which she has been practicing and adapting for over twenty years, and she is a member of both the Korean Fine Art Association and the Gwangju-Jeonnam Women Artists Association. She was also chosen for the final London Art Biennale Selection in 2021 and has won many artistic awards in Korea, including the Mudeung Art Competition Excellence Award. She explores the tenor and character of lines and forms in a manner unique to her experiences and inspirations, such that she reveals entirely new iterations of form not seen in another artist’s work.
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Imagination of Infinity 20-4, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 44” x 44” $ 3 8 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Drawing 20-55, 2020 Mixed Media on Paper 31” x 43”
$ 3 4 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Imagination of Infinity 20-3, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 51” x 51” $ 4 2 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Drawing 20-56, 2020 Mixed Media on Paper 43” x 31” $ 3 4 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-104, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 10” x 23.5”
$ 8 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-105, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 10” x 23.5”
$ 8 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-122, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 28.5” x 36” $ 3 2 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-125, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 36” x 24” $ 2 8 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Imagination of Infinity 20-8, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 44” x 44” $ 3 8 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Imagination of Infinity 21-3, 2021 Oil on Canvas 44” x 44” $ 3 8 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Imagination of Infinity 21-2, 2020 Oil on Canvas 44” x 44” $ 3 8 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-133, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 64” x 51” $ 4 8 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Imagination of Infinity 21-22, 2021 Mixed Media on Canvas 21” x 16” $ 1 1 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Imagination of Infinity 21-4, 2021 Oil on Canvas 18” x 15” $ 1 1 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-112, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 18” x 21” $ 1 5 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-132, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 64” x 51” $ 4 8 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-115, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 18” x 21”
$ 1 5 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
The beginning 20-114, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 18” x 21” $ 1 5 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
I work to create spatial depth and illusion by drawing repeated lines. The act of endless drawing is done as a way of practice, dance, and meditation. I repeat the overlapping strokes by connecting spirals with drawing materials, such as graphite and colored pencils, along with oil or acrylic paints. I start by drawing thinly and softly, and continue to build up. In this way, a space as deep as the universe is created on the plane. The hidden and immanent images created by the intersection of lines become tens of thousands of shapes through the viewer’s eyes. They carry multidimensional meanings, which my paintings expand. The reason for repeatedly drawing curves is the discovery of new images and a spiritual leap beyond technological development. The spirals look like repetitive circular motions, but at a new starting point they represent a dialectic that goes up one step. Cubes also appear frequently in my paintings. They sometimes take the form of a self-portrait. However, the hexahedron symbolizes a future that has not yet been revealed. It looks transparent, but you cannot see what is inside. My actions are like a meditation between the conscious and the unconscious. Although engaged in contemplation, my mind is always awake during the whole process. The position, rhythm, force, and speed of the line have sensitive standards that are set at every moment. I create a dimension of time and space that is as infinite as the universe, I imagine swimming in it, and draw lines on the canvas in free play. Envisioning a greater time and space beyond the unknown depths of the sea or huge rugged mountains is a longing for freedom. Finite human beings experience the freedom of infinity through imagination. As I draw a line, I picture myself flying toward infinity like Zhuangzi’s Peng bird, soaring thousands of feet on a single flap of wings.
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