Flanders Gallery will present Mia Yoon’s newest wall installation that plays with perspective.  She will also present her vertigo series from March 2 – March 29th, 2009. There will be an exhibition reception on First Friday, March 6th, from 6 pm-9 pm.

The ways in which mankind's eyes see and process the world have for centuries been a favorite subject for artistic exploration. Early Italian Renaissance painters treated the mathematics of linear perspective as an exercise in precision. Trompė l'oeil practitioners throughout the ages opted instead to revel in ocular trickery, choosing to tacitly force imagined spatial layers upon the view.

To play with perspective - and perception – has traditionally been to employ recognizable structures. Whereas abstracted and even minimal forms offer a panoply of interpretations - imagined inspirations, implied moods, similes of form - their very subjectivity complicated the achievement of a widely accepted effect.  It is under this paradox that Mia Yoon has come to construct her "Spectrum Installation."  In works that would seem to offer no delineation between foreground and background or even possess a distinction between foreground and background, Yoon creates a rolling path over which the eye journeys. She brings depth to a dispersed rainbow.

Her achievement is compounded by the skill through which the artist's presence is erased upon the sheets of Mylar. The smooth texture and avoidance of individualizing gestures like brushstrokes further support a tactile impression of the works as fully two-dimensional.  Yet her second register of color bands, displaced as it is against the first and third registers, again shocks the eye into a belief that it enters a foreign space, an area in which a shelf of evolving colors leaps from the wall. Because the work is conceptualized as a piece capable of variable dimensions, she possesses the ability to imagine infinite foreign planes. Whether it is a brief glimpse of a colored sliver or an entire room of interlocking panels, the viewer espies a place that suggests volume and depth, and yet it offers no parallel to a natural environ. It is this tension between the familiar and the undiscovered, the sparse and the richly detailed, which keeps the field from ever being truly accessible.

For more information, contact any gallery representative at 919.834.5044.

Cost: Free