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video still, single-channel hd video, 2 min 22 sec Commonwealth and Council
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This striking contemporary artwork features a sculptural hand crafted from dark, textured materials. The prominent fingers and palm are sculpted with a sense of movement, as if the hand is reaching out or grasping something. The use of a muted color palette, dominated by shades of gray, lends an atmospheric and pensive quality to the piece. The artist's technical mastery is evident in the careful attention to detail and the emotive expressiveness captured in the sculpted form. This thought-provoking work invites the viewer to consider themes of human connection, agency, and the tension between material and ethereal existence. ...

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Artist
Young Joon Kwak
B.1984, American

Young Joon Kwak (born 1984) is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles. Much of their work focuses on queer bodies, how they have been represented in art history, and how they form communities. They have exhibited and performed at Art Museums around the world. Kwak is the lead singer in the band Xina Xurner, and a founding member of the collective Mutant Salon. Kwak's Sculptural work has been exhibited locally and internationally. They have described the work as investigating “traditional patriarchal standards of beauty in relation to the history of white supremacy, imperialism, and current social justice issues.” Their sculptures often consist of amorphous bodily forms are made out of plaster, plastics, resin, metal, fibreglass and lights. In a 2014 review for Hyperallergic Magazine, Alicia Eler wrote of Kwak's exhibition, "Young Joon Kwak’s work is neither binging nor representing — it is a purging, a releasing of one identity not necessarily for another, but for the continued evolution of the self in its variously emerging forms. The snake is free. She is a mutant alien being, continually evolving, a trans/feminine entity of force." (Wikipedia) ...

Young Joon Kwak: Artworks
Mother Breast
Young Joon KwakMother Breast, 2014
19.05 x 18.42 x 6.35cm
Untitled (Corner Grid)
Young Joon KwakUntitled (Corner Grid), 2014
170.18 x 60.96 x 83.82cm
Untitled Lantern
Young Joon KwakUntitled Lantern, 2014
76.2 x 76.2 x 58.42cm
Spartan Skin (Face Mask)
Young Joon KwakSpartan Skin (Face Mask), 2021
43.18 x 33.02 x 20.96cm
Spartan Skin (Hand in Helmet)
Young Joon KwakSpartan Skin (Hand in Helmet), 2021
41.91 x 57.78 x 39.37cm
Spartan Skin (Booty)
Young Joon KwakSpartan Skin (Booty), 2021
49.53 x 55.24 x 22.86cm
Prayers
Young Joon KwakPrayers, 2021
182.88 x 182.88 x 4.44cm
My White Face
Young Joon KwakMy White Face, 2021
64.14 x 50.16cm
Spartan Impression (Face)
Spartan Impression (Foot)
Sleeping Muse
Young Joon KwakSleeping Muse, 2020
25.4 x 33.02 x 24.13cm
Venus Trap
Young Joon KwakVenus Trap, 2020
52.07 x 30.48 x 30.48cm
The Gift
Young Joon KwakThe Gift, 2020
59.69 x 121.92 x 114.3cm
Mother Ground
Young Joon KwakMother Ground, 2020
81.28 x 60.96 x 58.42cm
Vaginis Canal Growths II
Young Joon KwakVaginis Canal Growths II, 2018
24.13 x 29.21 x 26.67cm
Trans Creation Relic II
Young Joon KwakTrans Creation Relic II, 2019
21.59 x 40.64 x 15.24cm
Inverted Masturbator Vaginis III
Inverted Masturbator Vaginis IV
Inverted Masturbator Vaginis V
Young Joon KwakInverted Masturbator Vaginis V, 2017
13.34 x 11.43 x 12.06cm
Inverted Masturbator Vaginis VI
Vaginis Light
Young Joon KwakVaginis Light, 2017
73.66 x 30.48 x 50.8cm
Vaginis Wreath
Young Joon KwakVaginis Wreath, 2017
26.67 x 27.94 x 6.35cm
Lying Hermaphroditus
Young Joon KwakLying Hermaphroditus, 2017
175.26 x 60.96 x 33.02cm
Remote Vaginis
Young Joon KwakRemote Vaginis, 2017
17.78 x 8.89 x 17.78cm
Hermaphroditus’s Reveal I
Young Joon KwakHermaphroditus’s Reveal I, 2017
106.68 x 71.12 x 83.82cm
Untitled Wall Piece (Cube)
Excreted Venus
Young Joon KwakExcreted Venus, 2013
226.06 x 111.76 x 2.54cm
Aggregate Body
Young Joon KwakAggregate Body, 2013
210.82 x 83.82cm
Buxom Sparty
Young Joon KwakBuxom Sparty, 2021
119.38 x 68.58 x 27.94cm
Spartan Impression (Torso)
Divine Ruin (my Face)
Young Joon KwakDivine Ruin (my Face), 2021
27.94 x 17.14 x 12.7cm
Spartan Ruins
Young Joon KwakSpartan Ruins, 2021
182.88 x 182.88 x 4.44cm
Spartan Skin (Torso)
Young Joon KwakSpartan Skin (Torso), 2021
17.14 x 91.44 x 79.38cm
Skin (My Face)
Young Joon KwakSkin (My Face), 2021
28.58 x 16.51 x 7.62cm
Spartan Skin (Hand on Groin)
Young Joon KwakSpartan Skin (Hand on Groin), 2021
20.32 x 64.14 x 66.04cm
Hermaphroditus' Reveal II
Young Joon KwakHermaphroditus' Reveal II, 2017
99.06 x 60.96 x 17.78cm
Face Wipe IV (David)
Young Joon KwakFace Wipe IV (David), 2017
45.72 x 43.18 x 40.64cm
Pinwheel Vaginis
Young Joon KwakPinwheel Vaginis, 2017
7.62 x 7.62 x 5.08cm
Trans-Creation Relic
Young Joon KwakTrans-Creation Relic, 2017
12.7 x 35.56 x 15.24cm
Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...

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