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{{Short description|American artist}}
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| caption = Yellin In 2011
| birth_date = July 22, 1975
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| birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], California, USA
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, US
| field = Contemporary Art
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| awards = Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Savannah College of Art and Design
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'''Dustin Yellin''' (born July 22, 1975 in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]) is a contemporary artist living in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>http://www.artnet.com/artist/424196448/dustin-yellin.html ARTNET</ref> He is known for his work in layered glass in which the artists embeds "hundreds of little pictures, drawings and images clipped out of magazines, art books and the like<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/opinion/david-brooks-modern-community-building.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Dustin Yellin’s Modern Community-Building|last=Brooks|first=David|date=2015-07-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>" to form complex and intricate [[Tableau vivant|tableaux]] in [[Miniature (illuminated manuscript)|miniature]], which the critic, Gilda Williams, writing in [[Artforum]], noted provides viewers "the ability to occupy a divine vantage point while enjoying an overwhelming sense of discovery and wonder<ref>{{Cite news|url=|title=Dustin Yellin|last=Williams|first=Gilda|date=March 2017|work=Artforum|access-date=}}</ref>". These works, which the artists refers to as "Frozen Cinema<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://playjunkie.com/mesmerizing-glass-sculptures-by-artist-dustin-yellin/|title=Mesmerizing Glass Sculptures By Artist Dustin Yellin|last=K|first=Ron|date=2019-08-13|website=PlayJunkie|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>", have been featured at such notable sites as New York's [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/175736/new-york-city-ballet-art-series-presents-dustin-yellin/|title=New York City Ballet Art Series Presents: Dustin Yellin|date=2015-01-21|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>, the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Kennedy Center]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2015/04/09/a-dozen-dancers-trapped-in-glass-dustin-yellins-installation-at-the-kennedy-center/|title=A dozen dancers trapped in glass: Dustin Yellin’s installation at the Kennedy Center|last=Dingfelder|first=Sadie|date=2015-04-09|work=Washington Post|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C]] as well as at the [[Brooklyn Museum]], where Yellin's work is part of the permanent collection<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/218284|title=Brooklyn Museum|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>. Yellin has likewise participated in [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|The Metropolitan Museum of Art]]'s ''Artist Project''<ref>{{Citation|title=Dustin Yellin on ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals {{!}} The Artist Project Season 1 {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=http://artistproject.metmuseum.org/5/dustin-yellin/|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>.
'''Dustin Yellin''' (born July 22, 1975) is an American artist living in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>http://www.artnet.com/artist/424196448/dustin-yellin.html ARTNET</ref> His work embeds "hundreds of little pictures, drawings and images clipped out of magazines, art books and the like"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/opinion/david-brooks-modern-community-building.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Dustin Yellin's Modern Community-Building|last=Brooks|first=David|date=2015-07-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> to form [[Tableau vivant|tableaux]] in [[Miniature (illuminated manuscript)|miniature]], which the critic Gilda Williams, writing in ''[[Artforum]]'', noted provides viewers "the ability to occupy a divine vantage point while enjoying an overwhelming sense of discovery and wonder".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Dustin Yellin|last=Williams|first=Gilda|date=March 2017|work=Artforum}}</ref> These works, which the artist refers to as "Frozen Cinema",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://playjunkie.com/mesmerizing-glass-sculptures-by-artist-dustin-yellin/|title=Mesmerizing Glass Sculptures By Artist Dustin Yellin|last=K|first=Ron|date=2019-08-13|website=PlayJunkie|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07|archive-date=April 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426214112/https://playjunkie.com/mesmerizing-glass-sculptures-by-artist-dustin-yellin/|url-status=dead}}</ref> have been featured at sites including New York's [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/175736/new-york-city-ballet-art-series-presents-dustin-yellin/|title=New York City Ballet Art Series Presents: Dustin Yellin|date=2015-01-21|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Kennedy Center]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2015/04/09/a-dozen-dancers-trapped-in-glass-dustin-yellins-installation-at-the-kennedy-center/|title=A dozen dancers trapped in glass: Dustin Yellin's installation at the Kennedy Center|last=Dingfelder|first=Sadie|date=2015-04-09|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C]], and the [[Brooklyn Museum]], where Yellin's work is part of the permanent collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/218284|title=Brooklyn Museum|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> Yellin has likewise participated in [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|The Metropolitan Museum of Art]]'s ''Artist Project''.<ref>{{Citation|title=Dustin Yellin on ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals {{!}} The Artist Project Season 1 {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=http://artistproject.metmuseum.org/5/dustin-yellin/|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> According to [[Andrew Durbin]], "Yellin has formalized the central task of art—to archive: feelings, objects, events, selves—in his large glass blocks, recalling in their extreme hermeneutical diversity (forms within forms within forms, images within images within images) both as a past in which the representation of the human form was art's most recognizable enterprise and a future in which that enterprise is deeply complicated by the fact that the human form has been shredded, reformatted, revised, and redesigned, made precarious and permeable by technological and ecological shifts."<ref>Durbin, Andrew. "Archive Fever." ''Dustin Yellin: Heavy Water'', Rizzoli, 2015, pp. 24 -29.</ref>

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Joining his [[photomontage]]-in-glass work, Yellin is "embarking on what might be the most ambitious and symbolically significant sculpture in history<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-breakingviews-idUSKCN1SM2AA|title=Breakingviews - Cox: Imagine the end of the oil supertanker era|date=2019-05-17|work=Reuters|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en}}</ref>". Entitled ''The Bridge'', the work "aims to repurpose a tool of global energy production to influence conservation policy<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/dustin-yellin-tackles-climate-change-with-oil-tanker-tipped-vertically-11558395023|title=Dustin Yellin Tackles Climate Change With Oil Tanker Tipped Vertically|last=Kamping-Carder|first=Leigh|website=WSJ|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>" by inverting, and anchoring a 1,000 foot long oil [[Oil tanker|supertanker]] vertically in a harbor "with the stern pointed at the sky to remind people of the need for humanity to end the fossil fuel era as quickly as possible<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/02/repurposing-old-oil-tankers-as-renewable-energy-hubs/|title=Repurposing Old Oil Tankers As Renewable Energy Hubs|date=2019-07-02|website=CleanTechnica|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> . This "[[Found object|ready-made]] artwork, complete with elevators and a viewing platform for visitors, capturing the sheer scale of our energy system<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=8348a4d0-e912-11e9-b601-252c7985ab3c&url=L25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAxOS0wOC0wNi90aGUtaHlkcm9jYXJib24tZXJhLXMtc3BlY3RhY3VsYXItZW5k|title=Bloomberg - Are you a robot?|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>" is currently being developed with "architect [[Bjarke Ingels]] and [[Arup Group|Arup]], the design and engineering firm<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/dustin-yellin-tackles-climate-change-with-oil-tanker-tipped-vertically-11558395023|title=Dustin Yellin Tackles Climate Change With Oil Tanker Tipped Vertically|last=Kamping-Carder|first=Leigh|website=WSJ|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>".

[[File:Dustin-Yellin-Psychogeographies-lincoln-center.jpg|thumb|''Psychogeographies'' at Lincoln Center, 2015]]

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In parallel to his [[studio]] practice, Yellin is the Founder and President<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pioneerworks.org/about/|title=About|website=Pioneer Works|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> of [[Pioneer Works]], an [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit]] cultural center in [[Red Hook, Brooklyn|Red Hook]], Brooklyn, that "builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pioneerworks.org/about/|title=About|website=Pioneer Works|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>". This "cultural hub and classroom, museum, studio, concert venue, rentable event space and more—spread across 24,000 square feet, three sweeping floors and a 20,000 square-foot garden<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/karastiles/2018/11/16/pioneer-works-an-artists-space-blending-brilliance-and-community-in-brooklyn/|title=Pioneer Works: An Artists' Space Blending Brilliance And Community|last=Stiles|first=Kara|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>" breaks, according to the former CEO of Chanel fashion house, [[Maureen Chiquet]], "the model of siloed education. I’m on the board of [[Yale University|Yale]]—we’re looking at ways to combine art and science and get past brick walls. Dustin is doing all this instinctively, and brilliantly, from scratch<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/dustin-yellin-art-brooklyn-utopia|title=Inside Artist Dustin Yellin’s Brooklyn Factory of Delights|last=Nast|first=Condé|website=Vanity Fair|language=en|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>." This "incubator where painters rub elbows with physicists<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/10/pioneer-works-incubator/|title=A New Kind of Incubator Where Painters Rub Elbows With Physicists|last=Stinson|first=Liz|date=2014-10-16|work=Wired|access-date=2019-10-07|issn=1059-1028}}</ref>" often collaborates with the likes of [[Google]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/t-magazine/art/dustin-yellin-vr-google-tilt-brush-art.html|title=One Celebrated Brooklyn Artist’s Futuristic New Practice|last=Symonds|first=Alexandria|date=2016-04-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> , and "features influential, [[Nobel Prize]]–winning scientists discussing some of science’s great answered questions<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2018/10/24/watch-a-brooklyn-warehouse-as-a-crucible-for-new-ideas/|title=Watch: A Brooklyn Warehouse as a Crucible for New Ideas|date=2018-10-24|website=Simons Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>" next to art exhibitions, such as ''PÒTOPRENS''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/468542/potoprens-the-urban-artists-of-port-au-prince-pioneer-works/|title=The Transcendent Spirit of Haitian Contemporary Art|date=2018-11-03|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>'','' a survey of Haitian art which displayed "numerous monumental figurative sculptures in Pioneer Work’s yawning main space — a vibrant carnivalesque antidote to the classical sculpture courts of western museums<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/arts/design/four-knockout-group-shows-to-see-now.html|title=Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now|last=Smith|first=Roberta|date=2018-10-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>".<br />

== Selected Solo Exhibitions ==

* 2017 '''10 Parts''', GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam
*2015 '''Psychogeographies''' (Permanent Public Art Commission), 6121 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California
*2015 '''Psychogeographies''' New York City Ballet Art Series, New York City Ballet Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York & The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC.
*2015 '''The Triptych''', Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York
* 2015 '''Selv ab twact hums,''' The Fireplace Project, New York
* 2014 '''$50,000, Two Parachutes, and A Crab’s Suit,''' Richard Heller Gallery, California
* 2014 '''The Triptych,''' Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Georgia
* 2013 '''Investigations of a Dog''' Half Gallery, March 20—April 22, 2012
* 2011 '''Osiris on the Table''' 20 Hoxton Square Projects, February – March 2011
* 2010 '''Nightshades''' Independent Ideas Studio, October 19 – October 30, 2010
* 2010 '''Eden Disorder''' Samuel Freeman Gallery, March- April 2010
* 2009 '''Dust in the Brain Attic''' Robert Miller Gallery, April – July 2009
* 2008 '''Unnatural Selections''' Patricia Faure Gallery, January – March 2008
* 2008 '''Permutations''' Haines Gallery, January – February 2008
* 2007 '''Suspended Animations''' Robert Miller Gallery, May – August 2007
* 2005 '''Dustin Yellin''' Robert Miller Gallery, New York, January – February 2005
* 2002 '''Previous Works''' James Fuentes Project Space, New York, May 2002
{{div col end}}

==Selected Group Exhibitions==

* 2019 '''Apma, Chapter 1 - From the Apma Collection''', Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
*2019 '''New Glass Now''', The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
*2019 '''Glasstress''', Fondazione Berengo, Venice, Italy
*2018 '''HÍBRIDOS: El Cuerpo Como Imaginario''', Museo Del Palacio de Bellas Artes, México City
*2018 '''Immigrant Artists and the American West''', Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA
*2018 '''Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art''', Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
*2018 '''Scale: Possibilities of Perspective''', The Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York
*2017 '''Glasstress''', Fondazione Berengo, Venice, Italy
*2017 '''Singular Object''', 53W53 Gallery, New York
*2016 '''Group Exhibition 10th Anniversary Show''', James Fuentes, New York
*2016 '''I, Cyborg''', Gazelli Art House, London
*2015 '''Diverse Works: Director's Choice, 1997–2015''', Brooklyn Museum, New York
*2015 '''Behold! The Blob''', Richard Heller Gallery, California
*2014 '''Hot Chicks''', The Hole, New York
*2014 '''Environmental Impact''', Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, California
*2013 '''Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year One''', curated by Phong Bui at Industry City, Brooklyn
*2013 '''Jew York''', Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
*2012 '''Brucennial 2012 “Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Stronger.”''', Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York
*2010 '''Conversations II''', Travesía Cuatro Gallery, Madrid
*2009 '''One From Here''', Guild & Greyshkul, New York
*2009 '''Without Walls''', Museum 52, New York
*2009 '''Among the Trees''', New Jersey Center of Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
*2008 '''Geometry As Image''', Robert Miller Gallery, New York
*2007 '''Conversations I''', Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
*2006 '''Earth and Other Things: Dustin Yellin and Johanna St. Clair''', Lincart, San Francisco
*2006 '''Black and Blue''', Robert Miller Gallery, New York
*2005 '''Landings''', Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
*2005 '''First Annual Watercolor Show: Ten Times the Space Between Night and Day''', Guild & Greyshkul Gallery, New York
*2005 '''Nostalgia''', Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
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In parallel to his [[studio]], Yellin is the Founder and President<ref name=":0" /> of [[Pioneer Works]] (PW), a [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit]] cultural center in [[Red Hook, Brooklyn|Red Hook]], Brooklyn, that "builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://pioneerworks.org/about/|title=About|website=Pioneer Works|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> This "cultural hub and classroom, museum, studio, concert venue, rentable event space and more—spread across 24,000 square feet, three sweeping floors and a 20,000 square-foot garden"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/karastiles/2018/11/16/pioneer-works-an-artists-space-blending-brilliance-and-community-in-brooklyn/|title=Pioneer Works: An Artists' Space Blending Brilliance And Community|last=Stiles|first=Kara|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2012.{{CN|date=November 2023}} This "incubator where painters rub elbows with physicists"<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/10/pioneer-works-incubator/|title=A New Kind of Incubator Where Painters Rub Elbows With Physicists|last=Stinson|first=Liz|date=2014-10-16|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-10-07|issn=1059-1028}}</ref> often collaborates with the likes of [[Google]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/t-magazine/art/dustin-yellin-vr-google-tilt-brush-art.html|title=One Celebrated Brooklyn Artist's Futuristic New Practice|last=Symonds|first=Alexandria|date=2016-04-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and "features influential, [[Nobel Prize]]–winning scientists discussing some of science’s great answered questions"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2018/10/24/watch-a-brooklyn-warehouse-as-a-crucible-for-new-ideas/|title=Watch: A Brooklyn Warehouse as a Crucible for New Ideas|date=2018-10-24|website=Simons Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> next to art exhibitions, such as ''PÒTOPRENS''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/468542/potoprens-the-urban-artists-of-port-au-prince-pioneer-works/|title=The Transcendent Spirit of Haitian Contemporary Art|date=2018-11-03|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> a survey of Haitian art which displayed "numerous monumental figurative sculptures in Pioneer Work’s yawning main space—a vibrant carnivalesque antidote to the classical sculpture courts of western museums".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/arts/design/four-knockout-group-shows-to-see-now.html|title=Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now|last=Smith|first=Roberta|date=2018-10-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


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Yellin is currently working on a piece entitled ''The Bridge'', the work "aims to repurpose a tool of global energy production to influence conservation policy"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/dustin-yellin-tackles-climate-change-with-oil-tanker-tipped-vertically-11558395023|title=Dustin Yellin Tackles Climate Change With Oil Tanker Tipped Vertically|last=Kamping-Carder|first=Leigh|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=May 20, 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> by inverting, and anchoring a 1,000 foot long oil [[Oil tanker|supertanker]] vertically in a harbor "with the stern pointed at the sky to remind people of the need for humanity to end the fossil fuel era as quickly as possible."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/02/repurposing-old-oil-tankers-as-renewable-energy-hubs/|title=Repurposing Old Oil Tankers As Renewable Energy Hubs|date=2019-07-02|website=CleanTechnica|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> This "[[Found object|ready-made]] artwork, complete with elevators and a viewing platform for visitors, capturing the sheer scale of our energy system"<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-08-06|title=The Hydrocarbon Era's Spectacular End|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-06/the-hydrocarbon-era-s-spectacular-end|access-date=2019-10-07|website=Bloomberg.com}}</ref> is currently being developed with "architect [[Bjarke Ingels]] and [[Arup Group|Arup]], the design and engineering firm".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/dustin-yellin-tackles-climate-change-with-oil-tanker-tipped-vertically-11558395023|title=Dustin Yellin Tackles Climate Change With Oil Tanker Tipped Vertically|last=Kamping-Carder|first=Leigh|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=May 20, 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.dustinyellin.com/ Official Website: Dustin Yellin]
*[http://www.dustinyellin.com/ Official website]
*[http://pioneerworks.org Pioneer Works]
*[http://pioneerworks.org Pioneer Works]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdSosSVEE0I/ Video, TED Talk: ''Dustin Yellin, A Journey Through The Mind Of An Artist'']
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdSosSVEE0I/ Video, TED Talk: ''Dustin Yellin, A Journey Through The Mind Of An Artist'']
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Dustin Yellin
Yellin In 2011
Born (1975-07-22) July 22, 1975 (age 49)
Los Angeles, California, US
Known forContemporary Art

Dustin Yellin (born July 22, 1975) is an American artist living in Brooklyn, New York.[1] His work embeds "hundreds of little pictures, drawings and images clipped out of magazines, art books and the like"[2] to form tableaux in miniature, which the critic Gilda Williams, writing in Artforum, noted provides viewers "the ability to occupy a divine vantage point while enjoying an overwhelming sense of discovery and wonder".[3] These works, which the artist refers to as "Frozen Cinema",[4] have been featured at sites including New York's Lincoln Center,[5] the Kennedy Center[6] in Washington, D.C, and the Brooklyn Museum, where Yellin's work is part of the permanent collection.[7] Yellin has likewise participated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist Project.[8] According to Andrew Durbin, "Yellin has formalized the central task of art—to archive: feelings, objects, events, selves—in his large glass blocks, recalling in their extreme hermeneutical diversity (forms within forms within forms, images within images within images) both as a past in which the representation of the human form was art's most recognizable enterprise and a future in which that enterprise is deeply complicated by the fact that the human form has been shredded, reformatted, revised, and redesigned, made precarious and permeable by technological and ecological shifts."[9]

In parallel to his studio, Yellin is the Founder and President[10] of Pioneer Works (PW), a non-profit cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that "builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world".[10] This "cultural hub and classroom, museum, studio, concert venue, rentable event space and more—spread across 24,000 square feet, three sweeping floors and a 20,000 square-foot garden"[11] was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2012.[citation needed] This "incubator where painters rub elbows with physicists"[12] often collaborates with the likes of Google,[13] and "features influential, Nobel Prize–winning scientists discussing some of science’s great answered questions"[14] next to art exhibitions, such as PÒTOPRENS[15] a survey of Haitian art which displayed "numerous monumental figurative sculptures in Pioneer Work’s yawning main space—a vibrant carnivalesque antidote to the classical sculpture courts of western museums".[16]

Yellin is currently working on a piece entitled The Bridge, the work "aims to repurpose a tool of global energy production to influence conservation policy"[17] by inverting, and anchoring a 1,000 foot long oil supertanker vertically in a harbor "with the stern pointed at the sky to remind people of the need for humanity to end the fossil fuel era as quickly as possible."[18] This "ready-made artwork, complete with elevators and a viewing platform for visitors, capturing the sheer scale of our energy system"[19] is currently being developed with "architect Bjarke Ingels and Arup, the design and engineering firm".[20]

References

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  1. ^ http://www.artnet.com/artist/424196448/dustin-yellin.html ARTNET
  2. ^ Brooks, David (July 21, 2015). "Opinion | Dustin Yellin's Modern Community-Building". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
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