Mi Seon Yoon’s work is given vitality through the temporal narrative of her life. Her portrait works, completed in the form of repetitive spheres, are colored with graphite to add emotional depth. The works are given the meaning of an act of resolution because they begin with an obsessive life experience. In this way, Yoon’s works are unique focal points that reveal emotional darkness in its pure raw form.

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One day in her dream, the artist witnessed a special being segmented into geometric forms of cylinders, cones, and spheres. This fragmented body and face, named "Bob-hair" by the artist, serves as both her alter ego and muse, performing a dance on the circus stage. The image of Bob-hair struggling not to fall in this special space of fantasy and tension—the circus—left a powerful impression on the artist.

The works born from this experience reveal wit, lightness, elegance, and mystery on the surface, but beneath lies a deep existential anguish. The dream-state clown, who paradoxically experiences solitude and anxiety amidst endless audience demands and expectations, merges with the artist's mirror-self—the graphite face—expressed through the detailed visual language of her linework.

Yoon Mi-seon's paintings are built upon the strong contrast of light and shadow created by precise pencil lines. For the artist, black is not simply a color but a complete color in itself—a fundamental backdrop containing infinite possibilities. She creates the illusion of three dimensions through subtle variations in brightness, while intentionally treating certain areas with low brightness or limited color to achieve a paradoxical harmony between depth and flatness.

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Artist Miseon Yoon (b. 1979) majored in textile art at Hongik University was introduced to the art scene with her patchwork in 2009. The pieces of fabric that are dyed and cut into different shapes represent portraits and these were sewn over and over again countlessly.

According to the artist, she was under pressure from her family when she was young because she did not fit into the society’s ideal standards. Under the pressure of comparison and contempt with violent language, she was left with a deep internal wound and engulfment of unresolved anxiety. Her patchwork, which nails the questions and concerns about good and evil, human nature, and the anxiety followed along, symbolizes the extremely desperate and tragic self. After suffering a shoulder injury from the Face-to-Face solo exhibition in 2017 in which she worked painfully with anxiety as its source, she finally attempted herself to be free from the patchwork. 

Did the painful work itself act as a way to relieve anxiety for the artist? While experimenting various executions of her artwork, the artist tried to redirect herself from her serious pain and distorted gaze on others into positivity 
 
Aspects of Cubism can be found in her artwork which visualizes analytical interpretation by gradually adding delicate aspects to the shapes of the objects. The organic figures which compose the characters in the artwork and the spheres as the major component of the expression, the Balance Ball, is the artist's own language when dealing with anxiety. Her change was reflected in responding to the fate of human beings of anxiety and fear with a flexible, spherical attitude toward life. The Balance Ball that flows freely on the paper is the artist's unique point of view that reveals the emotional darkness in the purest form. The work with graphite in pencils captures emotions of the various people with outstanding details that acrylic or oil painting cannot display. 


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Artist Miseon Yoon (b. 1979) majored in textile art at Hongik University was introduced to the art scene with her patchwork in 2009. The pieces of fabric that are dyed and cut into different shapes represent portraits and these were sewn over and over again countlessly.

According to the artist, she was under pressure from her family when she was young because she did not fit into the society’s ideal standards. Under the pressure of comparison and contempt with violent language, she was left with a deep internal wound and engulfment of unresolved anxiety. Her patchwork, which nails the questions and concerns about good and evil, human nature, and the anxiety followed along, symbolizes the extremely desperate and tragic self. After suffering a shoulder injury from the Face-to-Face solo exhibition in 2017 in which she worked painfully with anxiety as its source, she finally attempted herself to be free from the patchwork. 

Did the painful work itself act as a way to relieve anxiety for the artist? While experimenting various executions of her artwork, the artist tried to redirect herself from her serious pain and distorted gaze on others into positivity 
 
Aspects of Cubism can be found in her artwork which visualizes analytical interpretation by gradually adding delicate aspects to the shapes of the objects. The organic figures which compose the characters in the artwork and the spheres as the major component of the expression, the Balance Ball, is the artist's own language when dealing with anxiety. Her change was reflected in responding to the fate of human beings of anxiety and fear with a flexible, spherical attitude toward life. The Balance Ball that flows freely on the paper is the artist's unique point of view that reveals the emotional darkness in the purest form. The work with graphite in pencils captures emotions of the various people with outstanding details that acrylic or oil painting cannot display. 