So Yoon Lym is a Korean born artist now exhibiting Urban Patterns at the Arthur M. Berger Art Gallery in Purchase, New York. This series of hair and braid paintings began in 2008 are based on photos taken by the artist of her students and people she stumbled upon while living in New Jersey.
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“I have a strong interest in hair as a transformative vehicle of physicality. I am also interested in the associations of hair and hairstyles as indicators of social, cultural, ethnic and gender affiliations. The interest in urban hairstyles is of particular interest since these hairstyles are unique to a particular social, cultural and ethnic experience that is not my own. As a woman, I have always been aware of the power of hair. And perhaps because of the experience of my strict and traditional upbringing, I have never explored the full potentials of my own possible hairstyles in public. Perhaps it is through my paintings that I am able to explore different representations of identity.” -So Yoon Lym
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