Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of new work by Mie Yim. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition.
The hazy, colorful pastel drawings of Mie Yim depict stuffed bears, bunnies, and other creatures in disconcerting situations and environments. While the artist's bright palette, soft-edged style and stuffed animal figures recall a pictorial language associated with childhood innocence, Yim's characters project blank, puppy dog stares as they find themselves in strange, unsettling fantasy worlds abound with prone creatures, interpersonal anxieties, sexual situations, and power games.
The animal characters in Yim's work are based on people that she has encountered or on members of her family. For Yim, the figures are evocative of Eastern cultures' beliefs in reincarnation from animal to human and the association of one's personality with a particular animal.
Mie Yim's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, most recently in "Internal Excess" at the Drawing Center in New York. Yim was born in South Korea in 1963, and currently lives and works in New York.