Shih Yun Yeo

Singapore ink-based artist that is known to reinterpret the very act of ink painting with striking results. Yeo graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1998 with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration. She then joined LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts and completed a Diploma in Communication Design in 2001… read more

Ethereal Glory, 2022

NFT
ADDRESS: 0x5937702381a438bdf5ba0b1c4c617c0dc2f7646b14e9d0d06a148a21dd054950
MINTED: PALM Network
RESOLUTION: 1920 x 1080 px
FORMAT: Mp4
EDITION: Unique
Physical Asset
MATERIAL: Screen paint and acrylic on linen (Framed)
PAINTING: 48 13/16 x 28 5/16 in. (124 x 72cm)
FRAMED SIZE: 50 x 29 1/2 in. (127 x 75cm)
MARKINGS: Signed on front of painting, bottom right.
EDITION: This work is unique.

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Ethereal Glory, 2022

“Ethereal Glory” by Shih Yun Yeo was inspired by the Greek mythology word ‘Aether’, sometimes also spelled as ‘Aither’ or ‘Ether’ which means god-personification of the bright, glowing upper air of heaven. Aether is the god of the upper air, the purest, finest air that the gods’ breathe. Aether was also a primordial god of light and the god of the sky, which the ancient Greeks considered to be “blue ether” that represented heaven.
 
Throughout history, including the Baroque era, human’s desire to seek the Gods and the heavens are depicted in many paintings. The color palette used in this work combines the iconic blue to reflect the “blue ether” with the gold, a typical color used in the baroque era to capture a period characterised by splendour in representation and elaborate celebrations.
 
For this work, Yeo experiments with the fusion of both the traditional and unconventional form that reinterprets the very act of Chinese ink painting. She starts with employing simple toy robots equipped with Chinese brushes dipped into paint to perform a task of painting, or rather a dance. Through this mechanistic ecstatic mingling, numerous traces appear on the surface of the linen. They serve as a starting point for the construction of an image. The artist carefully examines all the traces and collages them in a digitally assembled appearance via photoshop. The final image is embodied as a silkscreen, finished by the artist’s orchestration. The image of the work is bound to embark on another layer of digitality processed by Houdini’s intimate knowledge of mathematics and algorithms where the image becomes a series of digital particles, hypnotised by a circular zen-like wave. In an almost quantum way, the work becomes both a wave and a particle, ethereal in it’s character.

 

Yeo Shih Yun

Singapore ink-based artist that is known to reinterpret the very act of ink painting with striking results.

Yeo graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1998 with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration. She then joined LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts and completed a Diploma in Communication Design in 2001, prior to her pursuit of the Post Baccalaureate Programme in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002.

Yeo’s experimentations with the fusion of the traditional form and contemporary mediums, such as new media or performance art, have garnered much acclaim, including a commission by the Singapore Art Museum in 2011. Her “Conversations with trees” painting was nominated for Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalists and awarded People’s Choice Award in 2012, with her painting auctioned by Christie’s Asia. She also won the UOB Painting of the Year Competition (Distinction in Abstract category) in 1999 & 2007.

Yeo has held exhibitions in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Tokyo & New York on the international scene. Her recent commissions include National Gallery Singapore, ‘My Ink-credible Adventure’ and solo exhibition at Esplanade titled ‘Chance Encounters’ in 2021. She has also recently been invited to participate in a specially curated NFT exhibition presented by Tezos at S.E.A Focus during Singapore Art Week which runs from the 15th to the 23rd of January 2022.

Yeo entered the NFT space with Foundation.app since March 2021. Her NFT video art titled “Mind Ink Painting Machine” was part of “Generative Art and the Future” NFT Art exhibition in Shenzhen from Sept 22 to Sept 27, 2021 hosted by Poly Auction China. This is the first special auction of generative art in China, which brought together 20 works of generative art from 17 digital artists around the world.

In 2017, her first book, INKPULSE: the art of Yeo Shih Yun, was published. The volume conceptualizes Yeo’s pulsating pursuit for new depths and new perspectives within and beyond the realm of Abstract Expressionism.

Yeo is also the Founder of the independent art space “INSTINC” in Singapore, where she currently lives and works.

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