Last Summer No. 11 - Jinsik Yoo

Retail Value: $300
Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.5 x 3 in

Donated by Jinsik Yoo

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About the Piece:

This series expresses the freedom and liberation that I have encountered as a queer since I moved from South Korea to the United States through the image of people enjoying sunbathing on the beach with the symbolic language "summer."

About the Artist:

Growing up in South Korea with a strict moral code influenced my interest in using symbols to communicate, as the message is disguised through another language only those that know could understand.

My background studies in graphic design further enhanced my knowledge of how to utilize color, line, shape, and form, so that I can manipulate, cut up, and reshape the context of what the viewer is seeing. With clay, I find that I am able to create sculpture that remains abstract yet references the human form, which I understand to be complex and exists with many layers composed of histories, experiences, and emotions.

Through the mash-up of 2-D and 3-D work, I explore issues relative to my life, including gender binaries, and how memory affects our perception and conscious decision-making.

Bio

Jinsik Yoo is a figurative ceramic sculptor from Daejon, South Korea. He received his BFA in graphic design from Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. He then worked as a graphic designer before returning to Konkuk University as a special graduate student studying ceramics. Yoo then moved to the United States in 2017 to pursue his MFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has exhibited and presented nationally and internationally. His studio practice involves translating photographs into paintings, which are then spliced and reassembled into three-dimensional forms.