Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to present Stills, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Yunhee Min, on view from November 1st through December 20th, 2025. Yunhee Min’s new suite of small-scale paintings reflects her ongoing interest in optical phenomena, transient light, and in capturing a sense of emergence. Each piece meditates on the passage of time, translating atmospheric impressions, sounds, memories, and observations into heavily saturated, tonal and near-translucent fields of color. Through Min’s deft grasp of the interactions between color, form, and opacity, the compositions seem to vibrate and flicker as layers of paint meander in and out of visibility. Min likens this work both to film stills and to still life painting. These two genres possess the seemingly contradictory qualities of being static while alluding to what may have preceded and what may come. She describes a process that involves “prolonged looking, quick glances…sounds near and distant, ambulating, floating, and remembering”, expressed through palimpsests of color and gesture that alternatingly emerge and disappear. Min continues an exploration of the material possibilities of mark-making, employing a variety of different applications: wet and dry brush strokes, pours, drips, and rolls. The amalgamation of these approaches creates complex relationships between figure and ground, where solids dissolve into formlessness and shapes materialize out of pure expanses. On this new body of work Min writes: Like still images from a film, these paintings hold time with numerous segments and events on the surface of the canvas. When I think about still life painting, I imagine stillness in time, presence, and passing of light. Always present in everything visible, color is living and moving. Yunhee Min (b. Seoul, Korea) is a Los Angeles-based artist who holds a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MA in Design Studies from Harvard University. Recent site-specific installations and architectural interventions include: Hammer Projects: Yunhee Min, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin: Red Carpet in C, University of California, Riverside, Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA; Equitable Vitrines, Equitable Life Building, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Min has had solo exhibitions at LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and Exercise, Vancouver, BC. Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum at UCLA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD). In 2022 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Upcoming projects include a permanent mosaic installation in the new Westwood/UCLA Los Angeles Metro station (scheduled to open 2028); as well as a site-specific installation for the opening of the new Memphis Art Museum (scheduled to open 2026). Min has shown with Vielmetter Los Angeles since 2003 and is also represented by Miles McEnery Gallery, New York. The gallery is located at 1700 S Santa Fe Avenue, south of the 10 freeway. Parking is available in the north and south parking lots adjacent to the building. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm and by appointment. For further information and press inquiries, please contact Olivia Gauthier at Olivia@vielmetter.com. Image: Yunhee Min, “Still (#18),” 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20" [HxW], Photo credit: Brica Wilcox