fig 37.06 you bring me joy

Yeni Mao

fig 37.06 you bring me joy, 202315 x 30 x 14cmSign in to view price
Details
Material
high temperature zacatecas stoneware with ferric oxide finish
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This striking sculpture features a disembodied hand crafted from a dark, earthy material with a rough, weathered texture. The sculptural form is minimalist and abstract, emphasizing the expressive, almost skeletal quality of the hand. The positioning of the fingers suggests a sense of movement or gesture, inviting the viewer to ponder the hand's purpose or meaning. The artist's use of a muted, monochromatic color palette and the tactile quality of the medium create a palpable sense of physicality and mortality, perhaps hinting at the human condition or the ephemeral nature of existence. ...

Similar Artworks
Untitled (Laurel Highlands)
Joani Tremblay
Untitled (Laurel Highlands), 2022
153.04 x 125.73cm
Movie for package tracking
Jan Domicz
Movie for package tracking, 2020
Construction
Impostor (Theory of space in film image)
Jan Domicz
Impostor (Theory of space in film image), 2023
Ancestral Muse IV
Paul Maheke
Ancestral Muse IV, 2023
93 x 68 x 4.5cm
The silence on the floor of my house
Joani Tremblay
The silence on the floor of my house, 2023
121.92 x 101.6cm
Safe space for a passing History _ Incienso blanco de la Vibora
Gaëlle Choisne
Safe space for a passing History _ Incienso blanco de la Vibora, 2023
60 x 37.5 x 5cm
Untitled (naphthol red)
Joani Tremblay
Untitled (naphthol red), 2022
153.04 x 125.73cm
Safe space for a passing History_888
Gaëlle Choisne
Safe space for a passing History_888, 2023
250 x 122 x 7cm
Gisant II
Paul Maheke
Gisant II, 2024
39.8 x 129.7cm
Darkness Visible : #3 Twister Again
Alice Aycock
Darkness Visible : #3 Twister Again, 2019
40.6 x 71.1cm
Ancestral Muse V
Paul Maheke
Ancestral Muse V, 2023
93 x 68 x 4.5cm
To my friends. Next room (Hotel Monterey)
Jan Domicz
To my friends. Next room (Hotel Monterey), 2021
Safe space for a passing History_Rainbow
Gaëlle Choisne
Safe space for a passing History_Rainbow, 2023
49 x 22 x 3cm
Early Spring Flower-Paws Stretching Soul Sheet – Mesmerizing Mesh #206
Haegue Yang
Early Spring Flower-Paws Stretching Soul Sheet – Mesmerizing Mesh #206, 2023
92 x 62 x 3.5cm
Untitled (field and Fragonard trees)
Joani Tremblay
Untitled (field and Fragonard trees), 2022
153.04 x 125.73cm
Finds (I) from the Serie Seven shapes for a disturbance
José Luis Arroyo Robles
Finds (I) from the Serie Seven shapes for a disturbance, 2024
38 x 22 x 11cm
Navel VI
Jack O'Brien
Navel VI, 2023
53 x 45 x 4cm
Part and Proposal: Storr
Tanoa Sasraku
Part and Proposal: Storr, 2021
29.7 x 21cm
Spiral Nebula (Large)
Kiki Smith
Spiral Nebula (Large), 2017
81.3 x 63.5 x 5.6cm
Yeni Mao
Artist
Yeni Mao

The sculptural practice of Yeni Mao engages in issues of fragmentation through equations of body and architecture. Mao pits the physical and psychological properties of restraint, domination and order against the chaos of the visceral human condition. The works are cyborg constructions. They play with architectonic suggestiveness, placing importance on the negative space, the absence, through a circumstantial framework. Various components and visual languages- expressions of craft, material building systems and modes of display- provide a sounding board of information. Working with the agency of materials, objects and building systems, Mao emphasizes the tension between both their embedded and perceived significance. In an ongoing dialogue with the significance of material production history, the alteration of those materials becomes a medium for language or narrative. Mao layers his own personal histories over the expansiveness of these concerns, most recently the projects are based in family mythologies. He consistently references his surroundings, drawing from the colonial amalgamation of processes and materials and their relationship with contemporary object production. Through fragmentation and de-contextualization, exploding the construction into components, Yeni Mao links our own personal cultural fusion and displacement with the way we construct our environment. Yeni Mao (born in United States) earned a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, subsequently trained in the foundry and architecture industry in California and New York. In 2016 Mao relocated to Mexico City. Yeni Mao’s work has recently been featured in solo exhibitions such as Yerba Mala at Campeche in Mexico City, I desire the strength of nine tigers at Fierman Gallery, New York, and a public sculpture with Brooke Benington in London. Among the group exhibitions he has participated in are Otrxs Mundxs at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, The Disorganized Body at Zeller van Almsick in Vienna and The Hearing Trumpet at Galerie Marguo in Paris; and The IX Bienal De Artes Visuales Nicaraguenses in Nicaragua. Mao is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2021. Mao’s work has been written about in Art in America, The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Advocate, and The Village Voice. ...

Yeni Mao: Artworks
fig 37.12 can’t get next to you
Yeni Mao
fig 37.12 can’t get next to you, 2023
24 x 56 x 30cm
fig 37.11 sensoria
Yeni Mao
fig 37.11 sensoria, 2023
37 x 46 x 30cm
fig 37.06 you bring me joy
Yeni Mao
fig 37.06 you bring me joy, 2023
15 x 30 x 14cm
fig 37.05 roll me through the rushes
Yeni Mao
fig 37.05 roll me through the rushes, 2023
12 x 43 x 25cm
fig 37.03 horn
Yeni Mao
fig 37.03 horn, 2023
18 x 28 x 18cm
fig 33.6 to lay in the great city
Yeni Mao
fig 33.6 to lay in the great city, 2022
350 x 21 x 8cm
Unlock Price & Inquiry Access