Mie Yim
Photo by Kay Hickman
Mie Yim is a painter evolving from narrative figuration to abstract-figuration, drawing from her Korean heritage.
Her paintings feature sugary colors and anthropomorphic elements, creating surreal, organic machine-like beings. Yim’s intuitive approach embraces uncertainty and results in metaphysical portraits that convey pathos, anxiety, and humor. Yim’s practice acts as a bridge between personal reflection and an artistic language that delves into the complexities of the human experience, exploring the duality of beauty and horror, mirroring life and death, and the emotions that lie just beneath the surface.
New York, NY
Born 1963, South Korea
1986 BFA Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA