Tiny Chairs

Yoonmi Nam, artist

born 1974

Tiny Chairs, 2014

Portfolio/Series title: wood + paper + box portfolio

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: color woodcut

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): a 15 x 11 mm tiny chair
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 0 9/16 x 0 7/16 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): b 15 x 11 mm tiny chair
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 0 9/16 x 0 7/16 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): c 50 x 30 mm envelope
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 1 15/16 x 1 3/16 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): d 48 x 22 mm lifter
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 1 7/8 x 0 7/8 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2016.0022.04.a-d

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These two tiny prints of chairs come from the collaboration of artists Yoonmi Nam, Katie Baldwin, and Mariko Jesse. The three artists began their long-term friendship in 2004 while participating in the Nagasawa Art Park Residency in Japan, where they learned the techniques of Japanese woodblock prints. For their 2016 collaboration, they each contributed several prints that they mailed to one another, and assembled them into a portfolio titled wood + paper + box. These tiny chairs provide a glimpse of Nam’s constant interest in transforming two-dimensional prints into three-dimensional objects. These works of art also call attention to the fragility and endurance of paper. Nam teaches printmaking in the KU Department of Visual Art.