
Act 3 (of Midnight Movie)
2023
In "Act 3 (of Midnight Movie)," Justin Yoon constructs a luminous, theatrically charged scene that feels suspended between performance and dream. Executed in acrylic, acrylic gouache, and glitter on a generous square canvas measuring 127 × 127 cm, the work draws on Yoon's sustained engagement with queerness, popular culture, and the charged aesthetics of late-night cinema. The glitter is not mere embellishment but a structural element, catching and redistributing light in ways that animate the surface and keep the painting in a state of perpetual becoming. The square format reinforces a sense of the cinematic frame, of something captured mid-scene, mid-feeling, where narrative resolution is deliberately withheld. Yoon treats painting as a site of emotional accumulation, layering materials and references until the canvas holds the texture of memory and fantasy simultaneously. The gouache contributes a velvety opacity that contrasts with the acrylic's transparency, producing passages of surprising depth and visual tension across the composition. This interplay of matt and reflective surfaces is characteristic of the artist's practiced ability to make a painting behave differently depending on how and where it is encountered. The midnight movie of the title evokes cult viewership, communal longing, and the particular intimacy of watching something transgressive or tender after hours. For collectors, this work represents Yoon at a moment of confident synthesis, bringing together personal iconography and material sophistication in a format that commands presence. Signed by the artist and currently available through Jonathan Carver Moore, "Act 3 (of Midnight Movie)" is a compelling acquisition for those drawn to painting that operates with equal fluency in the registers of pop pleasure and psychological depth.
- Medium
- Mixed Media. Acrylic, acrylic gouache, glitter on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Jonathan Carver Moore
For Sale — $8000
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