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Family II

Object NameSculpture with Motorized Pedestal

Artist Bohyun Yoon (Korean and American, b. 1976)

Made FromGlass, Motorized Pedestal, Spotlight

Date2018

TechniqueCast

SizeOverall H: 156 cm, W: 49 cm, D: 49 cm; (a) Glass H: 37.3 cm, Diam (max): 24 cm

Accession Number2020.4.3

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

CA+D Reopening 2020

New Glass Now (TRAVEL)

New Glass Now

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

In Family II, a spinning mass of cast glass projects a human silhouette onto the wall. As it turns, the projected face transforms from the artist’s profile to his wife’s, to his child’s and back again. Surrounded by subtly shifting refracting rainbows, the piece is an evocation of wonder at the materiality of glass, the immateriality of light, and the mystery of the family connection. -Susie J. Silbert

Place Made

United States, VA, Richmond

Physical DescriptionSculpture with Motorized Pedestal, "Family II". Colorless glass, motorized pedestal, spotlight; cast. Colorless cast glass sculpture made from the profiles of Yoon's family members. The sculpture sits atop a motorized pedestal. With the use of a spotlight as the sculpture rotates on the pedestal Yoon's family members are projected on a wall in silhouette.
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