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Email PageDustin Yellin 2007
May 23, 2007- August 10, 2007
Reception: May 23, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dustin Yellin
Robert Miller Gallery
524 W 26th StRobert Miller Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Dustin Yellin.
For his second exhibition with the Gallery, Yellin presents large scale, cast resin sculptures. Some tower over eight feet in height. His works, reminiscent of insects and plants captured in amber, are a fusion of sculpture and drawing. The illusion of encapsulated specimens in suspension is achieved by layering drawings in acrylic or India ink on resin. Yellin builds his drawings, sometimes as many as two hundred, one on top of the next in precise orientations. The overlap and transparency of each layer result in an astounding effect of three-dimensionality. When viewed in the round, a new set of ideas surfaces. Seen from the side, the images mimic the optical trickery of holograms, disappearing and re-appearing at once. As portions of the image fall in and out of focus, the underlying, individual layers re-assert themselves and reinforce the mutually supportive relationship between drawing and sculpture and the deliberate construction of illusion. As scientists meticulously collect and study organisms of this world, Yellin has fastidiously created his own taxonomy of species that resemble organic structures; vines, skeletons, sea anemones, in another. Yellin has quickly mastered both his craft and vision and expanded on his ideas not only in scale but in concept. Set before us, in the most unnerving way, are beautifully crafted, suspended animations of the unknown yet familiar.
Yellin was born in 1975 and lives and works in New York City.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by Marina van Zuylen a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Bard College. She is the author of Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art. She writes on aesthetics, literature, medicine, and philosophy.
Art Reviews of Dustin Yellin 2007
| New York Times August 3, 2007 | Roberta Smith | "On first glance, Mr. Yellin’s pieces look like various natural specimens suspended in chunks of almost clear resin, like flies in amber. Tall columns seem to contain long, twisting spirals of different kinds of colorful algae, curling and floating like feather boas. Smaller pieces seem to contain snakes, a starfish and other reptiles or insects...." |
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