The painted world of emerging artist Guimi You is both intoxicatingly dreamy and slightly out of focus. Hazy passages of color transform ostensibly everyday scenes—newly fallen snow on city streets or the cozy interior of the artist’s favorite café–into enchanting and seemingly symbolic visions. These oil-on-linen compositions are pleasurably disorienting and are earning the South Korean artist new interest.
“Winter Blossom,” You’s debut solo exhibition now on view at Make Room Los Angeles, brings together the artist’s most recent landscapes, both pristine winter landscape and pastel springtime pastorals. While these seasons don’t exist in the Southern California climate, the exhibition is, in some sense, a homecoming. The artist lived in California for years, before returning to Korea, this past February.
