2000
Middle of Somewhere
Sun Koo YuhAmerican (born Korea), born 1960
Reflecting on his cultural identity and personality, Sun Koo Yuh adopts the spontaneity, humor, and color of Korean folk painting in his sculptural work. Viewed as amusing and whimsical, the realism found in Middle of Somewhere comes directly from memories of the artist’s everyday experiences. Themes of good and bad, transportation, caricatural animals, heads, and figurative forms appear in a totemic fashion. Looking reassembled and stacked, Middle of Somewhere was built in layers from the bottom up, inside to outside, from one block of clay. The artist notes that clay is flexible, yet fragile after being fired, which can be viewed as a metaphor for life.
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