Marilyn Yu
With a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley, Marilyn Yu is constantly trying to merge her various interests in the work she does. For over a decade, Yu has interwoven media, ideas, and people in her creations. In this her latest work, Yu takes fine art out of the gallery, high fashion off the runway, and adds stunning visuals to prose in order to aggregate and intensify their impact on and connection to life.
Yu’s artwork has always mixed her lighthearted and humorous perspective with critical topics ranging from urban sprawl to the culture of consumerism. Indeed, she was a pioneer in introducing sustainability to high fashion with her award-winning, hemp-based clothing line, Plutonium Clothing.
Living in a time of great cultural transition as advances in technology break down traditional boundaries, Yu finds our inherited cultures unskilled at dealing with the collisions of different ideas and views. She believes that as our inter-dependence increases, the ultimate ramification of misdirected aggression is self-destruction. This motivates her to strive for compassion and self-exploration in order to shed inherited expectations and obligations. She hopes to inspire others to manifest by showing, through her work, that ideas and dreams can become reality.
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