Blue Dream and his Disco from the collection of Ashby & Graff Real Estate

Blue Dream and his Disco, 2018

Acrylic, acrylic gouache, flashe, and glitter on paper

28 x 22 in

Attribution: "Blue Dream and his Disco"Acrylic, Acrylic Gouache, Flashe, and Glitter on 22" x 28" Paper, 2018 © Justin Yoon. Image Courtesy of Ashby & Graff Real Estate Art Collection. © 2024 Philippe Baron.

Inv: PA22F09.01

"From Justin Yoon’s fluffy, impeccably blended brushwork emerges an ethereal skyscape. The artist says that his affinity for pink and blue is a byproduct of his fascination with light, particularly with sunsets and the moments that follow them. “I love the colors of the shadows during dusk,” he says. “It almost seems like powder blue.” Yoon’s ability to conjure the effects of atmosphere is impressive—In At Dusk, yellow light emerges from an obscured horizon, its rays softly permeating the sky, dampening the fuchsia hue of the nearest clouds. Born two hundred years earlier, he would have excelled as a landscape painter, but that would have been a waste of his talent. Because as fascinating as his skyscapes are, what makes his work most intriguing are the figures he situates within them. They seem at once like pin-up stars and divine deities, a dichotomy that seems to collapse in our celebrity-obsessed culture. Yoon is inspired by 1950s movie stars and 1970s rock stars, idols who acquired a quasi-devotional following, and whose memorabilia recall religious kitsch. “I wanted to bridge a gap between the Americana history I experienced growing up with my spiritual ideas,” Yoon explains. The artist was exposed to jazz music by his father, and fell in love with the Golden Age of Hollywood watching old films late at night. Yoon’s paintings are an expression of devotion for these public characters who are evocative of a nostalgic time and a space that never has been real. Set in the sky, they linger in the spotlight, but we can never touch them. This distancing is important to Yoon, who strives to make his characters appear relatable but unreachable, a trait they share with celebrities and divine beings."

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b. 1991

Justin Yoon (b. 1991, Los Angeles, California) is a Brooklyn based painter. Early childhood memories of American junk food, late night old Hollywood movies on the TV, and listening to jazz in the car with his family on long drives significantly affected him to create a world of romantic melancholia, synthetic colors, and casual lostness of being. With no specific emotions provoked, the group of characters reoccur over and over in a deeply synthetic yet ambiguous dream-like landscape, continuing on this never ending "Highschool Reunion". The viewer becomes a part of this experience, which is vaguely both universal yet deeply personal. Justin holds a B.F.A in Illustration from Parsons School for Design, NY. His work has been exhibited at Anat Ebgi Gallery, Shelter Gallery, Hannah Traore Gallery, Governors Island Art Fair, Felix Art fair, and more. Upcoming shows include an online solo with Taymour Grahne Projects (London, UK), a group show with Museum of Sex (New York, NY), and two solos with Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami, FL) and Anat Ebgi(Los Angeles, CA). Justin's work has been published in Math Magazine, Lezs Magazine, and more.

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