Ju Yun: What I Leave Behind

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I was born and raised in South Korea before immigrating to United State of America. I am constantly reminded of how it feels to be between two polarizing worlds. Transitioning between traditional Korean art and wholly contemporary subjects and methods embraced within that in-between space, I often find a sense of spirituality and a great source of creativity. My earlier work shows rich layers of colors. Inside the visual space of the picture, the line can exist absolutely as its own epitome. At the same time, my idiosyncratic approach and nod towards western formalism is also entirely modern in tone. Moving to another country and having to take on and adapt to a different culture and lifestyle can also impact on personal identity. I explore this various aspect of hybrid identity which I am investigating through my mask projects that layered compositions of polymer clay and found objects to make art and changing something that already has an identity into something else and that something else influence others. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ju Yun combines motifs and techniques from her native Korea with threads from the Western pop cultural imagery and material. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She is mixed media and installation artist. She has exhibited in the US and abroad including recent solo exhibits at Art Expo (New York, NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington and the Susquehanna Art Museum (Harrisburg, PA). Recently she had a six month long solo exhibition at Springfield Museum of Art in Ohio. She has participated in a numerous group shows and juried museum exhibitions at venues including the Marin Museum of Contemporary of Art (Marin, CA); the Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA), William King Museum of Art (Abingdon, VA), and CICA Museum in South Korea. Recently she selected in Made in VA Biennial 2024 at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. She lives and works in Chantilly, Virginia.

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