Samantha Yun Wall, What We Leave Behind, 2025, ink and conté crayon on Claybord, 60 x 84 x 2.25 in., photo: Mario Gallucci.
Gallery artist Samantha Yun Wall's first solo museum exhibition, What We Leave Behind, is currently on view at the Seattle Art Museum. Per Seattle Art Museum, "Samantha Yun Wall’s new paintings use overlapping silhouettes of female figures as portals to unknown spaces and different temporal realms. Impetus for the new body of work is a Korean folk tale in which the Pasque flower is symbolic of a grandmother who passed away without the loving care of her grandchildren...Yun Wall has long been interested in the personal narratives of people born to Asian women and US service members during times of military occupation in Asia. The artist is mindful of the fact that these Amerasian children are stigmatized and Black Amerasians even more so. Examining cultural taboos that perpetuate secrecy and silence, she presents her figures alternately as invisible and hypervisible in stark black and white." The exhibition will be open through October 4, 2026.
The Seattle Times has also published an article discussing the exhibition; click here to read.