A MAKER OF ABSTRACT PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND ASSEMBLAGE SCULPTURES EXPLORES A NEW GENRE

by Edward M. Gómez

When nature calls, artists respond — by making art, that is.

We first met the artist Mimi Young in brutjournal’s September 2022 issue in a feature article that looked at a site-specific, mixed-media work she had created many years ago and installed outdoors on her friend’s rural property. There, over time, that assemblage of long, arm-like forms (“Half-Baked," 2013, also known as “A Boney Pile”) made of bisque-fired clay and metal wire aged and melded into the tall grass of the landscape in which it had been deposited.

More recently, Young has been making one-of-a-kind artist’s books, experimenting with a form and genre that has a long history in modern art and can be said to have enjoyed something of a heyday several decades ago, when such artworks served as both the expression and the documentation of certain forms of conceptual art.