JONGSUK YOON – YELLOW MAY
2024-05-06For this exhibition, two expansive, mural-sized paintings April Mai (2023) and August (2024) are presented in the Main Gallery. Featuring poetic silhouettes of mountainscapes, they reference the border between North and South Korea, as well as the artist’s own childhood memories. Across a vast and mesmerizing pictorial space, Yoon’s unique approach to painting is found in atmospheric layers of highly gestural and variously textured brushstrokes. The colors, a rich palette of bright yellows, soft fuchsias, and pale blues, are also references to speci!c memories, such as azalea blossom-covered mountains in the Korean springtime. The disembodied forms of color present this profoundly fraught geopolitical terrain as an anti-monumental, illusory reverie.
Opposite – May, 2024
Exhibition runs through to August 17th, 2024
Marian Goodman Gallery
1120 Seward Street
CA 90038
Los Angeles
