New York City ballet at its finest, NYCB Art Series dances through time with spectacular dancers, and works with artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Julian Schnabel to generate energy on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater in the Lincoln Center. February 2015 the company had Brooklyn artist Dustin Yellin on the team with his Psychogeography series.
Psychogeography by Dustin Yellin
Photo credi: Andrew Romer
Known for his pop culture time capsules from 3-D collage and sculpture paintings, Yellin painted media clippings onto glass sheets that are layered until Yellin’s “window sandwich” is formed. These life-sized human bodies seem to be inclosed in glass containers as if frozen in an ice block.
In his earliest works, he fixed dioramas of everyday objects in resin. As his sculptures expanded in size, health risks associated with long-term exposure to resins pushed him to find new materials. He developed his “window sandwich” technique of densely layering magazine or vintage playing card cut-outs between glass, revealing whimsical sculptures reminiscent of natural history museum displays.
In 2012, Yellin took his vision of mixed subjects colliding and synthesizing inside a box to new levels by founding Pioneer Works. This manufacturing warehouse–containing artist studios, exhibition and performance spaces, a science lab, a recording studio and other spaces–blurs the lines between disciplines by hosting artists of different mediums.
“Our utopia is the architecture of impromptu synthesis,” Yellin states on the website for Pioneer Works.
