Sage (Woojeong) Youn is a mixed media artist based in Boston, Massachusetts, currently studying Mathematics and Studio Art at Boston College. Working across painting, sculpture, textile, and installation, her practice explores the relationship between physical space and psychological experience. Drawing from interests in geometry, architecture, and writing, Sage investigates how structures can simultaneously conceal, divide, and expose. Her work often moves between intuitive mark-making and rigorous spatial construction, allowing painting and sculpture to exist in continuous dialogue.
Artist Statement
What is inside, and what is outside? Is there something in between? When does one become the other? These questions stay with me, both psychologically and physically. I have long been drawn to architecture, geometry, and the power of physical space to shape perception, emotion, and movement.
In my practice, these questions take shape through material, structure, and spatial relationships. While paintings serve as intuitive sites of collision, sculptures engage with the viewer’s presence through rigorous modeling. These three-dimensional forms act as physical thresholds, exploring the point where a structure ceases to be a shelter and begins to expose the void. Sculpture and painting coexist in a continuous exchange. My sculptural forms are translated onto the canvas, where layering and geometric lines divide space or enclose emerging shapes. Between physical reality and psychological depth, my works remain at the boundary where inside and outside stay perpetually ambiguous.