Tiny Chairs, Yoonmi Nam

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Yoonmi Nam, Tiny Chairs
Yoonmi Nam, Tiny Chairs
Yoonmi Nam
Tiny Chairs
2014
Yoonmi Nam, artist
born 1974
Tiny Chairs, 2014
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): a 15 x 11 mm tiny chair
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 0 9/16 x 0 7/16 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): b 15 x 11 mm tiny chair
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 0 9/16 x 0 7/16 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): c 50 x 30 mm envelope
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 1 15/16 x 1 3/16 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): d 48 x 22 mm lifter
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 1 7/8 x 0 7/8 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2016.0022.04.a-d
Not on display
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Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond
These two tiny prints of chairs come from the collaboration of artists Yoonmi Nam, Katie Baldwin, and Mariko Jesse. The three artists began their long-term friendship in 2004 while participating in the Nagasawa Art Park Residency in Japan, where they learned the techniques of Japanese woodblock prints. For their 2016 collaboration, they each contributed several prints that they mailed to one another, and assembled them into a portfolio titled wood + paper + box. These tiny chairs provide a glimpse of Nam’s constant interest in transforming two-dimensional prints into three-dimensional objects. These works of art also call attention to the fragility and endurance of paper. Nam teaches printmaking in the KU Department of Visual Art.
Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond
These two tiny prints of chairs come from the collaboration of artists Yoonmi Nam, Katie Baldwin, and Mariko Jesse. The three artists began their long-term friendship in 2004 while participating in the Nagasawa Art Park Residency in Japan, where they learned the techniques of Japanese woodblock prints. For their 2016 collaboration, they each contributed several prints that they mailed to one another, and assembled them into a portfolio titled wood + paper + box. These tiny chairs provide a glimpse of Nam’s constant interest in transforming two-dimensional prints into three-dimensional objects. These works of art also call attention to the fragility and endurance of paper. Woodcut printmaking is a relief process where the artist removes portions of a wooden block to leave behind raised surfaces that hold ink and create areas of black in the finished print. After the woodblock is covered in ink, the artist works manually or with a press to press a piece of paper against the block to form the impression of the woodcut. To create a color woodcut, the artist carves multiple blocks, one for each color, and presses them to the paper one at a time, often moving from light to dark to layer the colors. Tap the web icon to read more about Yoonmi Nam and to view some of her other works.

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond
Spencer Museum of Art Interns 2017–2018, curator
2018

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