Dustin Yellin is a busy man. He is one half of Kid Yellin Gallery in Brooklyn, founder of Intercourse Magazine, is currently working on his first documentary film, oh and he makes art, lots of art, big art.

 

Yellin primarily uses ink, paint, computer created transfers and blocks of resin to create large, eerily beautiful sculptures that seem to suspend parts of the natural world within them, like a bug trapped in amber. But from the sculptures also emanates a strange technological impression. Playing with form and space, the works can be seen as both flat and 3D, depending on where on where you stand when you view them.

 

Despite his long list of on-going projects, Yellin has no intention of limiting what he takes on. He is also in the process of developing an ambitious new project in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

 

Yellin bought a huge space, a 24,000-square-foot, 19th century warehouse, and is working on turning it into a multifarious art establishment. The idea is to create an art colony that will cultivate and support talent, and encourage collaboration, with residency programs, studio’s, exhibition spaces, a recording studio and even a working sculpture garden.

 

Yellin’s vision for the centre is big, he wants it to span from local to global, and be a hub for the convergence of different disciplines – painters, sculptors, musicians, and scientists – they’re all welcome. 

It’s a big undertaking, but Yellin loves a challenge.

Clementine Widdowson - de Pressigny

Photographer - Clément Pascal
Words - Clementine Widdowson - de Pressigny