
Solitude
2024
Solitude presents a quietly charged moment rendered in acrylic, acrylic gouache, and glitter on a compact 30.5 × 30.5 cm canvas. Justin Yoon works within an intimate square format that enforces a sense of containment, as though the emotional weight of the subject has been carefully pressed into a defined boundary. The addition of glitter introduces an unexpected luminosity, catching light in ways that shift the reading of the surface between vulnerability and resilience, between the heaviness of being alone and the subtle shimmer that solitude can sometimes carry. Yoon has built a practice around psychological interiority, using restrained compositions and layered surfaces to externalize states of feeling that resist easy articulation. In Solitude, the material choices are themselves expressive, with the matte opacity of gouache playing against the reflective quality of glitter to produce a surface that rewards close looking. The work does not dramatize its subject but instead holds it with a kind of tender precision, making the canvas feel less like a declaration and more like a private room the viewer is quietly permitted to enter. Signed by the artist and currently offered through Yiwei Gallery, this work represents Yoon at a moment of confident, considered practice. For collectors drawn to emotionally resonant work that operates through restraint rather than spectacle, Solitude offers lasting presence at a highly accessible scale.
- Medium
- Acrylic, acrylic gouache, glitter on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Yiwei Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Yiwei GalleryView on map
For Sale — $2000
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