Mimi Young

I am a NY based artist working primarily in my studio in Ulster County, NY.

Like so many creatives, I am affected as much by my experiences as I am by my environment.
Whether in a forest or a city, I get excited by the disparate elements that coexist and the imagery that emerges by accident.

I find and repeat motifs that facilitate my experience of the surface. I work from a basic process of birth, age, death, rebirth or create, decay, repair, renew.

I primarily paint on paper and my process includes layers of drawing and my own hybrid of transfer painting; adding and subtracting along the way. I find this helps me achieve the element of surprise that I need in a piece.

My sculptures are predominantly stoneware and wire, pieced together in an unrevered way.

Currently, I am obsessed with perimeters. I find that while making marks allows me to move through the space and is more grounding, making shapes allows me to focus on form; I vacillate between the two.

Typically, I work on several pieces simultaneously beginning with the same color palette and similar motifs… where they end up is the surprise.

BFA Pratt Institute, NYC

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
40th annual Group Exhibition, Heckscher Museum, Huntington NY
Essential Art, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
Artists in Residence, La Mano Pottery, NYC
NUTUREart juried Benefit Exhibition, NYC
Art in Clay, NYC
New Work, La Mano Pottery, NYC
Small Works, Olivebridge Library, Olivebridge NY


SELECTED SOLO
Drawings on Plaster, Robert’s Room WKCentre, East Meredith, NY.
Paintings and Drawings, The Space, NYC
New Work, The Space, NYC