Compelled by non-representational impulse and the physical process of making, Min approaches abstraction as an operation for making new environments that resonate with immersive color and light. Playing with luminescence, color, and techniques of application, Min creates spaces and moods in her paintings and installations that are indeterminate and ephemeral as colors and shapes oscillate between material status and atmospheric fields of light.
Yunhee Min’s monotypes expand the idea of compositional space and draw the viewer into the depth of color as tones modulate and shift in gradients. In one suite of work, Min employs various color saturations in order to undermine dimension, perspective and perception. In another grouping of work, Min ran multiple passes of partially inked plates with overlapping angular wedges that simultaneously accentuated, blotted and muted areas of the composition. It is through the atmospheric quality of these works that Min attempts to be subversive: it is here she disrupts traditional spatial relationships by the most minimal intrusion of the artist’s hand.
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Her work has been featured in gallery and museum exhibitions including: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea; Artists Space, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and others. Min has a MA in Design Studies from Harvard. In 2022 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Art and is currently a professor of art at UC Riverside, CA.
