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Dustin Yellin
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Born | July 22, 1975 Los Angeles, California, USA |
Known for | Contemporary Art |
Dustin Yellin (born July 22, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is a contemporary artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for sculptural paintings that use multiple layers of glass, each covered in detailed imagery, to create a single intricate, three-dimensional collage. His work is notable both for its massive scale and its fantastic, dystopian themes. Yellin is the founder of Pioneer Works, a not-for-profit cultural center, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Yellin's work has been exhibited worldwide.
Notable American locations include Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and a permanent public installation on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Since 2016, Yellin has been working with Google to develop creative, user-directed virtual reality technology.
In 2017, Yellin assembled 10 Parts at GRIMM Gallery in Amsterdam.
Yellin was born in Los Angeles in 1975. When he was five years old, he and his mother, a real estate entrepreneur, moved to Telluride, Colorado. A "congenital outsider," he attended high school in Colorado, but left before graduation because "I wasn’t learning about what I wanted to do". He spent a year studying with a physics instructor, absorbing both the scientific method and an eccentric approach to knowledge. At the physicist's urging, Yellin experimented with hallucinogens. "I felt like I had exploded through the universe—like I had been reduced to a single cell.” Yellin believes this experience helped shape his artistic worldview and commitment to social change. Science and consciousness became pivotal themes. His education was rounded by extensive travel to remote places, trips which revealed the bizarre and eccentric in the everyday.
Yellin arrived in New York City in 1995. A complete stranger to the area, he took to break dancing on sidewalks to help make ends meet. Within months, he met a broad range of creative, talented individuals who influenced and informed his work. In 2005, His first solo exhibition was at James Fuentes.