Reflections on Spring: an Online Exhibition in 3 Parts

Going in Circles

"The work is a combination of knots, clusters and lines that vector the

viewer's eye throughout the sculpture, between turbulent islands and

calmer spaces within. The art-making process is physically demanding on the artist and Beallor- Snyder has stated that the physical pain in creating the work can be equal to the emotional pain she expresses. Behind the spontaneous decision-

making process stems a personal narrative, reflecting emotional responses to being tangled between raising a family and the desire to make work on top of traditional domestic responsibilities; weight not uncommon to women. Often, the road does not come linearly to women, who are subject

to put the needs of others before their own."

Dream Interpretations

"Collaged from odd tidbits on the internet and text from found dream diary entries and interpretations websites, the piece is only completed through the act of being given"

How This Has To Be Told

"How this has to be told digs into family photos and mementos to question how much they reveal and how much they silence. Meaning is destabilized as narratives accumulate on the surface of the images across generations and time. Why can't our family recordings just be images? Why do we burden them with so much responsibility of being something else?

The piece consists of a 35mm slideshow synched to sound. The slides each have a narration. The accumulation of these voices question the content of the pictures and further talks about how we use family pictures and their relationship to truth."

*This project is presented as a physical slideshow. Due to COVID-19, the artist has allowed the viewing of this screener. This cut has an addition 5 slides of new material.

Redemption Tickets, Or No More Tickets to Ride

"The wool felted around the paper tickets is bright and colorful, giving off a playful energy, and encases the roll of tickets in a colorful shell. It is a rumination on what legitimizes legal tender/monetary systems, and an artifact of a time and place where collective play was physically possible. It is aspirational, attempting to lock in and hold fast the carefree feelings that actions like playing games and events like fairs can have."

At Dusk

"Justin Yoon is a Brooklyn based painter who was born in Los Angeles and grew up in both in LA and Bundang, South Korea. Early childhood memories of American junk food, late night old Hollywood movies on the TV, and listening to jazz in the car with his family on long drives significantly affected him to create a world of romantic melancholia, synthetic colors, and casual lostness of being. His obsession with his fantasy queer characters depicts the romanticization of queer idolatry mixed with the exaggerated physical features that represents the transient element of physical beauty. With no specific emotions provoked, the artist aim to bring out something personal from the viewer by placing them in a deeply synthetic yet ambiguous dream like landscape."