Mie Yim

The hazy, colorful pastel drawings of Mie Yim depict stuffed bears, bunnies, and other creatures in disconcerting situations and environments. While the artist's bright palette, soft-edged style and stuffed animal figures recall a pictorial language associated with childhood innocence, Yim's characters project blank, puppy dog stares as they find themselves in strange, unsettling fantasy worlds abound with prone creatures, interpersonal anxieties, sexual situations, and power games. The animal characters in Yim's work are based on people that she has encountered or on members of her family. For Yim, the figures are evocative of Eastern cultures' beliefs in reincarnation from animal to human and the association of one's personality with a particular animal.

Yim has held solo exhibitions throughout New York at Dinter Fine Arts, Storefront Ten Eyck, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Metaphor Contemporary, and Galerie in Arco in Torino, Italy. Additionally her work as bean featured in several group shows at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, Mrs. Gallery in Queens, the Bronx River Art Center in New York, Dumbo Art Center in Brooklyn, and many others.

Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin