About:

Creating, constructing, and producing art has been a method of communication where Anna seeks to create visual art that becomes a body of language. Anna Yoo is a visual artist who creates paintings and mixed-media work through experimentation and a focus on abstraction. She finds purpose as an artist to communicate meaning that breaks language barriers and its difficulties for those who view her work. She pushes the boundaries of space, explores the complex interrelationship with people and challenges the surface by creating work that exists between the two and three dimensional plane. She aims to do this through new combinations of color, form and space.

Artist Statement:

Space can be defined in a flexible manner by our own entity or by the relations built from coexistence. My work explores the blurred lines of space that are shaped by the individual or people who give the space a unique body. The space becomes structured by what people learn, perceive and communicate through experience that can not physically be captured. Therefore, space is defined as an invisible link built between the connection of people that breaks the physical plane. As the artist, I utilize lines and layer a variety of materials like traditional hanji paper to emulate the connections between the human body as a constant flow of movement, emotion and being. These forms of the human body not only permeate space, but its variation becomes a representation of identity and natural language. Through the method of reducing complex forms into simple forms, I seek to engage viewers to dive into the depths of what seems like the shallow surface of my work’s canvas and reflect on how they define their own space.