Yoorim Kim is a Seoul&New York-based artist living in Brooklyn, New York.Born in Seoul, Korea, she majored in Oriental Paintings as her undergraduate at Hongik University, and now studying for a master's degree in Digital Arts at Pratt institute. ...
Read More Yoorim Kim is a Seoul&New York-based artist living in Brooklyn, New York.
Born in Seoul, Korea, she majored in Oriental Paintings as her undergraduate at Hongik University, and now studying for a master's degree in Digital Arts at Pratt institute.
Her work is 'quilting' the physical/traditional work with new media.
She uses the concept of layers to make new shapes and forms by combining drawings or traditional sources with digital mediums on one screen. To combine a painting with digital media, there is a process of sewing transformation. Components can be single or repeated and over-layered in different and diverse forms. 'Quilting' isn't just about biting a hole for her, but through it can cover up what she wants to hide, erase, make new compositions and patterns, and finally create something completely different.
Her works are based on the reciprocity of nature, humans, and the environment. Here, humans are the only definite self, and nature and the environment are open, fluid, and have no set. The inherent relationship between the three is expressed by quilts of moving layers, and the combined images are derived with visual senses through a new dimension of the environment called interactive media technology. The environment can change the whole atmosphere of the physical works in many different feelings. This is mostly dynamic as a whole but includes a specific meaning in each layer.
Her works show how the traditional can interact with new digital forms.
