Justin Yoon

Justin Yoon is a Brooklyn based painter who was born in Los Angeles and grew up both in LA and Bundang, South Korea. Early childhood memories of American junk food, late night old Hollywood movies on the TV, and listening to jazz in the car with his family on long drives significantly affected him to create a world of romantic melancholia, synthetic colors, and casual lostness of being. With no specific emotions provoked, the group of characters reoccur over and over in a deeply synthetic yet ambiguous dream-like landscape, continuing on this never ending "Highschool Reunion". The viewer becomes a part of this experience, which is vaguely both universal yet deeply personal. These three characters represent a certain glamorous queer Asian idolatry as well; By glamorizing such figures in a hyper masculine and feminine visual, they become a symbol of sensual intimacy within oneselves, especially as Asian Queer characters.