But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
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Nari Ward
Six Paintings by Yun-Fei Ji
- Rodney Graham by Kim Gordon
- Pierre Huyghe by Doug Aitken
- Jerome Charyn by Frederic Tuten
- Ben Marcus by Courtney Eldridge
- Kaffe Matthews by Anthony Huberman
- Jonathan Caouette by Christopher Wilcha
- Laura Linney by Romulus Linney
- David Levi Strauss by Hakim Bey
Interviews
- Six Paintings by Yun-Fei Ji
- American Purgatorio by John Haskell
- Excerpts from a Wisconsin Childhood by Suzanne McNear
- Saturday by Scott Sell
- Coming Down by Lawrence Chua
- Loosing My Espanish by H.G. Carillo
- Four Poems by Xue Di
- Three Poems by Faraj Bayraqdar
- Two Poems by Honor Moore
- Release and Capture by Fionn Meade
- Inge Morath by Honor Moore
First Proof
- Odili Donald Odita by Olu Oguibe
- Bill Albertini by David Lang
- Amy Cutler by John Haskell
- Mel Kendrick by Carroll Dunham
Artists On Artists
- Terror, Eros, and Animal: The Fiction of Heather Lewis by Allan Gurganus
- Robert Quine by Marc Ribot
- Ant Farm 1968–1978, Berkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive by Clark Buckner
- Sylvia Plachy by A.M. Homes
- Ned Sublette’s Cuba and Its Music by Philip L. Sussler
- Marjane Satrapi’s Peresepolis 2: The Story of Return by Victoria Ludwin
Editor's Choice
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.
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The painter and the historian find common ground by unearthing narrative histories that have been overlooked and nearly forgotten.
Distorted but structured painting and music.
Paintings that write new figures into art history.
Originally published in
BOMB 89,
Fall 2004
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.
