Young Shin
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Los Angeles, California, Young received a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Studio/Visual Arts focusing on oil painting. In her body of work, melding her past experiences and passion together, she combines elements from art, design, and craft.
She says: “I paint with paper, and this paper-based practice has been a vehicle for creating artworks that are emotive, evocative, and reflective. My work overall examines and explores aspects of ephemerality and impermanence as it relates to human experience. More precisely, the idea that all things must come to an end with the inevitable and simultaneous birth of new beginning is very much at the core of my practice. Whether the expression is manifested in heavily- textured stripped lines, the structured or fluidly- aligned ‘grid-like’ surface, or intensely sanded down. the key to my visual articulation is in the process.”
Shin currently resides in Los Angeles where she works as a full-time painter. Her paintings have been exhibited and placed by galleries and collectors throughout the United States, Europe and Asia .