Mie Yim: New Works on Paper

Galería Mascota

February 8 - February 22, 2022
 

​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

PRESS RELEASE

 

Galería Mascota is pleased to host Villa Magdalena at their project space during Zona MACO Art Week in Mexico City, beginning on February 9th through February 13th, 2022.
 

Mie Yim: New Works on Paper, is a selection of recent drawings by Korean-born, New York-based artist Mie Yim (Seoul, 1963), which will be on view starting on February 8 until February 22, 2022. 
 

Over the past 10–15 years Yim’s artistic practice has embraced a strong stylistic shift, a mutation, in other words. The invented pastoral settings and anthropomorphic animals that used to define her paintings and drawings have been abandoned in favor of a more non-representational approach. In recent work, a strong tension exists between recognizable imagery and mutating forms with thick surfaces that resonate more with abstraction. Many layers of paint add a built-up quality which almost makes Yim’s technique feel sculptural, something that is clearly evoked by the artist in a 2018 statement, “I construct the paintings out of horizontal and vertical lines like scaffoldings or skeletons.”  The juxtaposition of brilliant colors and dramatic content is a recurring feature of the artist’s notion of beauty – which is almost always accompanied by an underlying sense of horror. 

Drawings are an essential component of Yim’s sensibility. Her works on paper are the origin of her paintings. The drawings on view present the artist’s personal mythological narratives and idiosyncratic spirit world. In these works, gods, humans, and nature all blend into the same aesthetic fabric. 

Yim’s subjects are hazy and fuzzy like her fragmented memory of childhood; caused by hasty migration to the U.S. at a young age. Her pictorial imagination includes natural deities, parasites, characters consumed by vegetal forms, animated compositions floating in space and different stages of metamorphosis.
 

Galería Mascota

Joaquin García Icazbalceta 39 
Colonia San Rafael
06470, Cuauhtémoc
CDMX, México

Open Tuesday – Thursday, 12am – 6pm, Friday – Saturday, 12am - 4pm.

+1 917 355 6437, +52 55 4143 8380

​

info@galeriamascota.com

​info@villamagdalena33.com