Yun-Fei Ji, Hanging Garden, 2001, ink, pigment and alum on mulberry paper, 41 x 48½ inches.
Yun-Fei Ji, The Corn Field, 2001, ink, pigment, and alum on mulberry paper, 19⅝ x 18¾ inches.
Yun-Fei Ji, The Move in Ba Don, 2002, alum and mineral pigment on mulberry paper, 48¾ x 38 inches.
Yun-Fei Ji, The Singing Women, 2002, ink and watercolor on mulberry paper, 45 x 55 inches.
Yun-Fei Ji, Mishaps IV, 2000, ink, pigment, and alum on mulberry paper, 18 x 96 inches.
Yun-Fei Ji, Mishap, 2000, alum and mineral pigment on mulberry paper, 18 x 96 inches. All images courtesy of the artist.
Yun-Fei Ji is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. His traveling exhibition Empty City, organized by Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, will travel to Washington, DC, and Boston. His paintings appear throughout the First Proof of issue 89.
An artist’s book paints on music sheets.
Paintings that challenge received behaviors.
Remaking the ’60s as a queer playground.
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Featuring interviews with Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe and Doug Aitken, Jerome Charyn and Frederic Tuten, Ben Marcus and Courtney Eldridge, Kaffe Matthews and Antony Huberman, Jonathan Caouette, Laura Linney and Romulus Linney, and David Levi Strauss and Hakim Bey.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
Kara Walker
