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Smack Mellon presents Spiked Garden, a site-specific installation of drawings by New York-based artist Mie Yim. The works on display started during lockdown when Yim, like many artists, was forced to work at home and away from the spacious studio that permitted her to create paintings at a larger scale. Under these conditions, Yim landed on a limited method of working that allowed for her imagery to flow, directly and unmediated, outward to the page: color pastels on various shades of Shinzen paper, 11.5 x 9 inches in size. This perfect combination of materials and scale allowed for the conduit between brain and hand to become immediate and clear–without overthinking, her hand could act first.
More than studies, these drawings are her muses. As such, something feels undeniable and true about the works and how they come to be. They do not perform “image” for anyone, having reached a state of fully gestated gesticulation through the dispersed agency of her mark-making.…
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Smack Mellon presents Spiked Garden, a site-specific installation of drawings by New York-based artist Mie Yim. The works on display started during lockdown when Yim, like many artists, was forced to work at home and away from the spacious studio that permitted her to create paintings at a larger scale. Under these conditions, Yim landed on a limited method of working that allowed for her imagery to flow, directly and unmediated, outward to the page: color pastels on various shades of Shinzen paper, 11.5 x 9 inches in size. This perfect combination of materials and scale allowed for the conduit between brain and hand to become immediate and clear–without overthinking, her hand could act first.
More than studies, these drawings are her muses. As such, something feels undeniable and true about the works and how they come to be. They do not perform “image” for anyone, having reached a state of fully gestated gesticulation through the dispersed agency of her mark-making.…
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