Cheryl Yun “The Cheryl Yun Collection/ Storefront”
dm contemporary NYC
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dm contemporary NYC presents a simultaneous exhibition featuring the work and the environment created by a multidisciplinary artist Cheryl Yun, entitled The Cheryl Yun Collection/ Storefront.
In the project room of the gallery, The Cheryl Yun Collection / Storefront, in which Cheryl Yun sets up a high-end boutique that displays one-of-a-kind, meticulously handcrafted lingerie, and handbags as well as her recent line of string bikinis. Luxurious, delicate and enticing, her faux fashion lines are shocking to anyone taking a more careful look, as the stunning patterns and colors that make these items so attractive and unique turn out to be abstracted images of war, and natural disasters. Photographs of tragedies and catastrophes appropriated by the artist from newspapers and on-line media sites, are scanned, mirrored, inverted and repeated to create, what Yun calls, a complex visual fabric. The underwear is influenced by images of suicide vests and international crises, the form of the handbags references the latest fashion trends while the imagery reflects headline news, and the recent string bikinis focus on guns, violence and more specifically the tragic events in Newtown, CT. Each garment or item comes with a label showing the source image and the newspaper caption, the first date indicates when it was published, the second date when the item was completed. Yun’s Collection/ Storefront, juxtaposes conflicting extremes, and exposes excesses, forcing provocative connections and pressing for a closer re-examination of values.
Cheryl Yun received her MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and her BFA in Fine Arts and BA in History from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in venues as wide ranging as White Columns (NY), Roebling Hall (NY), the New Benaki Museum (Greece), and Galerie Stihl Waiblingen (Germany). She has been the recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation and the Indiana Arts Commission. Residencies include, the Art Omi Residency Program (NY) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine). Yun’s work has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times and the Village Voice, as well as in various major art publications including Art in America and Flash Art. She lives in Connecticut, and is currently an instructor in the department of Photography at NYU’s Tisch School of Art.
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Schedule
from February 07, 2014 to March 15, 2014
Reception For The Artist on 2014-02-07 from 18:00 to 20:00