Art Talk: Yeon Ji Yoo and David Rios Ferreira

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Join artist Yeon Ji Yoo and curator David Rios Ferreira for an online conversation about Yoo’s BMAC exhibition, Wish You Were Here.

A native of South Korea, Yeon Ji Yoo immigrated to the United States with her family in 1982. Yoo has spent most of her life in New York City and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her artwork is influenced by her early childhood memories, including a childlike awe of her mother country and the rural farmland where she was born. Through her art, she explores the intersection of memory, identity, and the immigrant experience. Yoo says, “With imagery grounded in the visions from my youth, I am building a body of work tied together by the delicate (yet dependable) and robust (yet fickle) bonds that make and break us at our cores.”

David Rios Ferreira lives and works in New Jersey and New York City. In his mixed-media drawings and sculptures, appropriated images from coloring books and animation, 18th-century newspaper etchings, and political cartoons from the 1900s coalesce into a study of identity formation—an investigation of race, nation, sexuality, and gender. Rios Ferreira has exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad, including BMAC, CoCA in Seattle, Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, Minnesota, and Kunstraum Richard Sorge Gallery in Berlin, Germany.