Min Sin
Min Sin is from Gwangju, South Korea and she currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas. She received her BFA Painting at Pratt Institute with a minor in Museum and Gallery Practices. Her most recent two-person show was "FORE 4 FOR FOUR" at Pratt Institute's Steuben Gallery.
Finding Dori, 2019, Oil on canvas, 48 x 58 inches
By Min Sin
Erotophobia, 2019, Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
By Min Sin
Autophobia, 2019, Oil on canvas, 42 x 30 inches
By Min Sin
Fear of Drowning, 2019, Oil on canvas, 32 x 36 inches
By Min Sin
Trippy, 2020, Oil on canvas, 48 x 16 inches
By Min Sin
Where did that spider go?, 2020, Oil on canvas, 16 x 34 inches
By Min Sin
Fear of Falling Off a Skateboard, 2019, Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches
By Min Sin
Don't Wake Him Up, 2020, Oil on wood, 16.75 x 18 inches
By Min Sin
Fear of my Childhood, 2020, Oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches
By Min Sin
New City, 2019, Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
By Min Sin
Fear of Getting Stuck, 2020, Oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches
By Min Sin
Artist Statement
Fear.
It’s relevant.
Overcoming past trauma and present fears through art. By painting out my personal fears like falling off a skateboard and breaking my neck, I feel like I have control over them and am able to see them in a more lighthearted way. Irrationality fuels the anxiety embedded in fears.
My art is not scary. It’s colorful and everything is saturated with patterns that dance in and out between the lines of reality and imagination. I use the nude as a symbol of vulnerability and anonymity. My paintings are like bad dreams where you see a bunch of naked bodies and a lost dog and nothing is right and everything is not where it should be and your eyes are imagining things that aren’t there but you feel them.