{"product_id":"hyunsuk-erickson-yellow-thinggy","title":"Hyunsuk Erickson \"Yellow Thinggy\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHyunsuk Erickson \"Yellow Thinggy\" 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eSculpture, Ceramic, Poly-fill, Wood branch, Yarn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDimensions \u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e38 x 14 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnique\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigned on bottom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eHyunsuk Erickson is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and installation, whose practice investigates the intersection of fiber-based traditions and contemporary material culture. Born in Korea and based in the United States, her work is shaped by a cross-cultural perspective that engages Korean spiritual sensibilities alongside American material contexts, examining identity as fluid, relational, and continuously in formation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErickson received her MFA from American University in Washington, DC, where she presented a large-scale, site-responsive thesis installation at the Katzen Arts Center. This experience established the foundation for her ongoing exploration of immersive environments that engage viewers through spatial awareness, movement, and sensory perception. Central to her practice is Thingumabob World, an evolving body of work composed of hybrid sculptural forms that integrate crocheted, knotted, and embroidered textiles with rigid materials such as ceramic and wood. These works articulate tensions between softness and structure, intuition and construction, and operate as open-ended forms that invite interpretive engagement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at IA\u0026amp;A Hillyer Gallery (Washington, DC), Burlington City Arts (VT), and 636 Art Gallery (Seoul, Korea), and group exhibitions at the Kreeger Museum and Sandy Spring Museum. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Vermont Studio Center. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough her installation-based practice, Erickson develops immersive environments that foreground material relationships, spatial dynamics, and the evolving nature of cultural identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eArtist Statement:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\"For In Full Bloom, I present sculptural works from my ongoing project, Thingumabob World, which explores processes of growth, emergence, and transformation through material and form. My practice is grounded in the concept of primitive artificiality, where intuitive, hand-formed structures intersect with constructed and industrial elements. Through crocheting, wrapping, and stitching, I build layered textile surfaces over ceramic cores, creating hybrid forms that exist between softness and structure, containment and expansion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe works in this exhibition take on the presence of budding forms—compressed, unfolding, and in transition. They suggest moments of bloom and rebirth, where growth is not linear or fixed, but cyclical and continuously evolving. Each piece carries a sense of becoming, as if caught between formation and transformation, reflecting the instability and fluidity of identity and material states. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstalled together, these forms function as a clustered field of related bodies, evoking a collective process of growth. Their repetition and variation create a rhythm that mirrors organic systems, while their constructed surfaces reveal the labor and accumulation embedded in their making. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough this work, I explore how transformation can be both physical and perceptual—how forms can shift between familiar and unfamiliar states. In Full Bloom becomes not only a reference to natural cycles, but a condition of continual change, where materials, forms, and meanings are constantly unfolding and renewing.\" - Hyunsuk Erickson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRead more about her artwork and exhibitions on our \u003ca title=\"Indira Cesarine\" href=\"https:\/\/untitled-space.com\/portfolio\/indira-cesarine-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewebsite\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Untitled Space","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42385110532178,"sku":null,"price":7000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/6235\/9378\/files\/HyunsukEricksonIMG_4923_TheUntitledSpace.jpg?v=1777487099","url":"https:\/\/untitled-space.art\/products\/hyunsuk-erickson-yellow-thinggy","provider":"The Untitled Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}