group show

LSS NYC

“Focal Point 4”

2024 November 22 to 2025 January 19

Long Story Short Gallery invites viewers to Focal Point 4, a vibrant exhibition featuring the visionary works of Serolod, Miyeon Yi, and Meeson Pae. On view from November 22 to January 19, 2025, at 54E Henry Street, New York, NY 10002 this show unites three artists exploring themes of connection, longing, and the fusion of organic and mechanical forms. Through varied techniques, these artists push the boundaries of visual storytelling, creating immersive journeys through emotional and imaginative representations.

Serolod’s vivid, impressionistic scenes explore the balance between creation and destruction through hyperpointilism and a dynamic interplay of color. Works like Stray Boy, Purple Amaranth, and Present, transform complex digital imagery into painting language with layers of colorful markmaking, composing a harmonious reality in chaos and balance inspired by Einstein’s ideas on interconnectedness. The boundaries of skin and environment pixelate and occasionally blend together. In Leaf painting, a single, delicate leaf set against a textured backdrop symbolizes the boundless ties between all things, from atoms to galaxies through a singular concentrated form.

Inspired by the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Miyeon Yi’s works offer a poetic exploration of love, distance, and longing. Each painting becomes a stage for moments of intimacy and solitude. In Which Lover Claims the Moon, framed within a wooden clock, she captures the timeless ache of love, while Indifferent Moon Shines Equally on Us All reflects the moon’s cool, impartial light. Symbols like a red bird and shared gazes evoke the cyclical sacrifices of love and the universality of longing.

Meeson Pae imagines a harmonious future where nature and technology blend seamlessly. Influenced by Surrealism and Romanticism, her work blends biomorphic, flowing forms with a meticulous precision that creates internal and external realms brimming with life and transformation. In Passage (2024), Pae creates an environment that navigates the boundary between the organic and the engineered, merging these elements with an intertwined harmony of embedded forms. This approach is captured through the painting’s dynamic curves and glossy, membrane-like surfaces that evoke living organisms while carrying a machine-like refinement questioning the essence of life and the complex interplay between nature and technology.

Serolod (b.1997) studied Fine and Applied Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, earning an Integrated Master’s in 2021. Now based in London, she’s recently graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited across Europe, including at Chili Art Projects & Gathering Gallery in London, Future Gallery in Berlin and the Larissa Biennale in Greece.

Seoul-born artist Miyeon Yi (b. 1995, Seoul) explores themes of connection, identity, and memory. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MA from the Royal College of Art, London. Her work has shown internationally, including solo exhibitions in London and Milan, and she was a runner-up for the Batsford Prize in 2022.

Meeson Pae, born in Indianapolis, IN, explores the intersection of organic and mechanical forms in her art. She holds a fine art degree from UCLA and has exhibited internationally, including shows at K11 Musea in Hong Kong and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Pae’s work has been featured in notable venues such as Harvard’s Carpenter Center and Torrance Art Museum, and she has completed public commissions for Los Angeles International Airport and Le Meridien Hotel in China.