Yunhee Min was born in 1964 in Seoul, Korea and now works and lives in Los Angeles. In 1991 she studied painting at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California. After that she moved to Germany to study, and then later moved back to California. In order to support herself financially she began working in Hollywood as part of the production crew, painting sets that were up to 20 feet tall and 50-60 feet wide. While she was working in Hollywood she also began exhibiting and getting more of her own paintings seen.
Her paintings are focused on "exploring ...possibilities in abstraction." Min, through her abstraction tries to make her paintings seem like objects themselves, rather than them simply holding objects. She uses her abstract style to do this, focusing less on composition (the placement of certain elements) and more on color and color gradients.
For me, one of the most interesting things about Yunhee Min’s paintings are the paints she uses. Her preferred paints are house paints, and not only that but mistints. When someone goes to a paint store to buy house paint, they often get custom paints made to match various aspects of the room they're painting. If for some reason a person is unsatisfied with that particular mix and returns it, they are placed on a special “mistints” shelf and are considerably marked down. For the majority of her art pieces Min uses these mistints claiming that there was "something seductive about their status being rejected colors” and about “choosing those that were not chosen”.
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She often uses interesting materials and tools such as squeegees and sprayers.
- Her primary focuses are "material presence and optical effects, physical scale and palette"
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Movements (Swell 2)--Acrylic on Canvas
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| Untitled--Acrylic on Canvas |
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Luminaire Delirium--fluorescent lights,
steel, ballasts, electrical wires and power cord, paint
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| Events in Dense Fog 1 55”x48”--Painting |
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Attraction 2--Monotype Print
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I chose Yunhee Min as my artist because I really love how her art evokes so much emotion in the viewer without throwing a specific emotion in the viewers face. I also love how each painting has some aspect that could be considered a mistake, but in these paintings and prints, they come together in such a beautiful way.
In my work I love making things seem kind of messy but still held together and I think that Min does this really well. Her paintings may seem to have no rhyme or reason, but somehow each aspect of her paintings seem like they belong and fit together.
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