Installation view of Jinyoung Yu | the LIFE II. Image courtesy of Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles.
August 17, 2022
By Benjamin Genocchio
Jinyoung Yu is that rare breed of artist, someone who makes exquisitely crafted, collectible artwork that nonetheless has a profound conceptual dimension. This is the young Korean artist’s first solo show in the United States, presented at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles in collaboration with Choi & Choi Gallery in Seoul, South Korea and Cologne, Germany. It is a smashing success.
Sculpture is her medium and transparent PVC her core material. But her obsessive subject matter is the human mind, particularly tension between our sense of inner self and outer presentation to the world. Her multiple identities, for that is what these sculptures are, physical representations of ideas of self, or three-dimensional characters, are molded from PVC with painted plaster elements.
