Sean Yang

Coca-Cola Buddha Sean Yang

Mixed Media 4" x 12" x 4" $900

Sean Yang [Korean American, b.1979] is a Los Angeles-based artist who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. His art practice revolves around sculptural ceramics to mixed media works using multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary methods to investigate social and internal space. He exploits the tension between the reproducible and the handmade object, in order to examine social control, collective unconsciousness, individual identity, socio-cultural transformation. The mixed media work Coca-Cola Buddha deals with the artist’s hybrid identity. As an interbeing through the lens of consumerism and mindfulness based on the essence of Buddhist teaching such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Paths. Coca-Cola Buddha questions to the viewers rather than providing answers to the consumer culture and mindful living.