Yesuk Seo
Semifinalist
Yesuk Seo (born 1988, Florida; lives Seoul, South Korea) is a multi-disciplinary artist who has dealt with the abstraction of suspended illusions by combining experimental silkscreen printmaking and installation. She explores the relationship between forgotten or invisible images, history, locational meaning and architectural and landscaped space through hand-pulled screen printing. She has a BFA in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, an MFA in sculpture from Pratt Institute, New York, NY, and an MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. She has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, NY; The Boiler, Piergoi, Brooklyn, NY; Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL; Lower East Side Printshop and Print Center New York, both NY; as well as G Gallery, Seoul. Seo has received fellowships and residencies including the AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum, Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred Univeristy Experimental Arts Residency, Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, and at Sculpture Space Inc. and The Studios at MASS MoCA. Her work has been featured by Observer and Womxn in Expanded Print.
Statement from the Artist:
My work transcends the boundaries between painterly printmaking and installation. It captures my nomadic journey between two-dimensional and three-dimensional genres of art. Through hand-pulled silkscreen prints, I create abstract pixelated images depicting our constantly changing relationship with meaning and reality. Memories are often glamorized and distorted, whether it is our childhood home, our neighborhood, or the city. My practice archives my family history and traces patterns in memory and space by using invisibility as a phenomenon to render newer explorations of abstraction in time and urban landscapes.