JeongMee Yoon
Seo Woo and her Pink Things

Seo Woo and her Pink Things
Seo Woo and her Pink Things
Seo Woo and her Pink Things
ArtistKorean, born 1969
CultureKorean
Titles
  • Seo Woo and her Pink Things
  • from the series The Pink and Blue Project (2005-08)
Date2006
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 19 7/8 × 19 7/8 × 1 1/8 in. (50.5 × 50.5 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2007
Object number2007.1770
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

JeongMee Yoon’s fascination
with accumulations of objects led her to create the series
The Pink & Blue Project. This series evolved from the simple
act of making a portrait of her 8-year-old daughter, Seo Woo, who loved all
things pink.





Upon arriving in New York in
2002, Yoon discovered that her daughter’s obsession was not unusual. Expanding
her investigations into the phenomenon of pink, Yoon reached across cultures
and ethnicities, posting notices in her apartment building in Queens and at her
child’s school, and even stopping people on the street, in the subway, or at
shopping centers in search of volunteer subjects.
The Blue Project followed (see 2007.1771), and the artist noted that even though
her 14-year-old son did not particularly favor the color blue over other
colors, his clothes tended to be some shade of blue.





Whether this amassing of pink
and blue objects has been dictated by popular culture, influenced by pervasive
commercial marketing, or determined by product manufacturers, Yoon’s
photographs leave little doubt about the global reach of the marketplace.


Provenance[Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition History"Photo Forum 2007," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, September 17, 2007-January 14, 2008.

"Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cameron Gallery and Beck Lower Level Corridor, October 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
No visible signature. Gallery invoice states "signed and dated by the artist.

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