New York Horticulture
by Ana Finel Honigman
http://artnet.com/magazine/reviews/honigman/honigman3-30-04.asp
Mie Yim's adorable, fuzzy and furry creatures, on view in the project space of Lehmann Maupin gallery in Chelsea, have as seedy a side as Griffin's anthropomorphized beasts. Even though her palette is sugary and the characters she represents resemble Marshmallow Peeps (those ubiquitous Easter candies), Mie Yim paints strange incoherent rituals, with sexual, cultish and murderous undertones.
On one of the walls, a sizable mural depicts two giant teddy bears blissfully kissing while fluffy chicks, little bears and baby bunnies look on with shocked expressions of condemnation. Off to the side of the scandalous lovers, a funeral party gathers to mourn the death of an enormous cherry colored bear while another massive red teddy sinks into a nearby lake and a small little yellow bear stands on a large rabbit's head, suffocating him in a field of flowers.
Yim's smaller canvases and works on paper, which range in price from $650 to $3,950, show more of the creepy practices stuffed animals might engage in once the lights are off and the kids are asleep.