Myung Gyun You 유 명균
Myung-Gyun You is a Korean artist who lives and works in the U.S. and Korea. He graduated from Busan National University and Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2013 he has been traveling to many regions of the U.S., where he has been deeply influenced by the great variety of natural environments and magnificent geological landscapes. These experiences have motivated many of his current works.
He has been part of numerous group exhibitions including at the Tokyo National Museum of Art, Osaka National Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the U.K. Saatchi Gallery. He has held many solo shows including at Poodle University Gallery, St. George's University, Philadelphia Cultural Association, Gallery Idm, and many more.
He has been part of numerous group exhibitions including at the Tokyo National Museum of Art, Osaka National Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the U.K. Saatchi Gallery. He has held many solo shows including at Poodle University Gallery, St. George's University, Philadelphia Cultural Association, Gallery Idm, and many more.
A couple of years ago my life changed very unexpectedly, and I began to take on a lifestyle of constant moving: I felt like a nomad.
I traveled all over the U.S. searching for free, open spaces to live and work: I went to the South, the East and West Coasts, and spent time in the Midwest and mountains. During this time, I mostly lived out of my car. Because of this situation, I was able to experience the natural world up close. Every place I went, there was a new and different form of nature, and geological beauty, unlike any I had ever seen before. It felt miraculous. The magnificence of the expansive beauty made my admiration for the frontier world grow and grow; the beauty felt like fantastic earth history on display. It was clear to me that geologically, there are millions of years of 'hidden' time on the planet, within the earth, and in space.
I began to think more about how human beings are only a small moment in the history of the earth, compared to the deep evolutionary past of the natural world.
The cycles of repetition, rebirth, and growth are countless in the natural world - at least for our human brains, which try but cannot calculate this seemingly endless march of evolution.
I began to treasure pieces of the land I was witnessing. When I would visit a forest for the first time, I would take a handful of soil. I began to collect soils from each place I visited in the U.S. My work has begun to encompass this search and collecting. With my collection process, I am investigating time travel between human form and geological form. Where do we sit in the infinite cycles occurring around us? Are they infinite? I am inquiring as to where I fit in time - socially and culturally - by physically engaging with the natural world, which adds such awe and mystery to my own concepts of time.
I traveled all over the U.S. searching for free, open spaces to live and work: I went to the South, the East and West Coasts, and spent time in the Midwest and mountains. During this time, I mostly lived out of my car. Because of this situation, I was able to experience the natural world up close. Every place I went, there was a new and different form of nature, and geological beauty, unlike any I had ever seen before. It felt miraculous. The magnificence of the expansive beauty made my admiration for the frontier world grow and grow; the beauty felt like fantastic earth history on display. It was clear to me that geologically, there are millions of years of 'hidden' time on the planet, within the earth, and in space.
I began to think more about how human beings are only a small moment in the history of the earth, compared to the deep evolutionary past of the natural world.
The cycles of repetition, rebirth, and growth are countless in the natural world - at least for our human brains, which try but cannot calculate this seemingly endless march of evolution.
I began to treasure pieces of the land I was witnessing. When I would visit a forest for the first time, I would take a handful of soil. I began to collect soils from each place I visited in the U.S. My work has begun to encompass this search and collecting. With my collection process, I am investigating time travel between human form and geological form. Where do we sit in the infinite cycles occurring around us? Are they infinite? I am inquiring as to where I fit in time - socially and culturally - by physically engaging with the natural world, which adds such awe and mystery to my own concepts of time.
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