Artist name: Grant Riven Yun
Location: Milwaukee
Date minted initially NFT: Feb. 3, 2021
Which blockchains? Ethereum, Counterparty (Bitcoin)
Who is he?
Grant Yun has actually constantly been an artist at heart with an early goal to have his work included at a significant auction home. A curious and inspired person, Yun is studying medication while managing his work as an artist and carrying out as a breakdancer who has actually completed all over the United States.
Since finding NFTs a little over 2 years back, the Wisconsin local has actually moved his art and individual brand name into the stratosphere much quicker than he’d envisioned. With a minimalist design that generates sentimental vibes amongst collectors and his amusing character on Twitter, Yun is slicing out a substantial portion of mindshare among digital art fans.
“Before NFTs, I told myself I would become an artist who sells at a large auction house one day because, at the time, that was my only metric through which I knew what it meant to be a successful artist. I had no experience being an artist overall, so that was the only metric I had to measure.”
He reached the metric in October 2022:
“Having my work be put up at Sotheby’s was surreal. I think the most pivotal moment for me was when I signed the contract… It just felt like such a monumental moment.”
Yun admired NFTs as the accelerant that assisted him attain what may otherwise have actually taken a years.
“It’s honestly been surreal. I think that the growth of artists in this space is hyper accelerated. To have achieved what I’ve achieved shouldn’t happen within a decade. For me, it happened within two years of me joining the space. But, here we are.”
Personal design
Describing his own unique design, Yun acknowledges the effect of simpleness to stimulate memories and the effect of old school computer game.
“I see my work as minimalist and nostalgic,” he states. “I think my art is really focused on being ambiguous enough to where people can relate to it with their own personal experiences, but specific enough to where it can elicit certain memories from people’s lives.”
“I try to limit the amount of details and clutter. It’s really a less in more kind of mentality.”
“With the gaming vibes in my art, it’s mostly based around Nintendo games — particularly the Super Nintendo era, Nintendo 64 and GameCube. I feel like Nintendo games, especially the ones that were published by Nintendo themselves, have a very specific color palette — a bit like Pokemon and The Legend of Zelda. All of those have a very unique and similar kind of set of colors.”
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Notable sales to date:
“The Alien” from the series “Space” cost 136.9 ETH on July 28, 2022 ($236,217 equivalent on date of sale).
“Laundry” from the series “Northeast” cost 70 ETH on Jan. 28, 2023 ($115,182 equivalent on date of sale).
“Casa Roja” from “Grant Yun Early Works” cost 25 ETH on Jan. 8, 2023 ($31,596.50 equivalent on date of sale).
“En Route #7” from the “Grant Yun x Avant Arte” collection cost 16 ETH on Jan. 3, 2023 ($19,426 equivalent on date of sale).
Influences
Traditional art continues to offer motivation, especially developed painters from the early to mid-20th century, such as American Gothic painter Grant Wood or the pop artist Ed Ruscha.
“Most of my inspiration comes from painters like Grant and Ed and studying painting from the traditional art world.”
Yun included, “I should mention, I do like to leave easter egg, crypto-related things in my illustrations. But the vision for where my art is going I think has remained the same.”
What should artists be taking notice of?
As a trainee of the digital art video game and a huge fan of generative art in specific, Yun states Mpkoz is one to look out for. Mpkoz is the artist behind the noteworthy collection “Chimera.”
Also getting props from Yun is Summer Wagner, an emerging NFT professional photographer who Justin Aversano likewise ranked in a current NFT Creator.
“Two of my favorites right now are definitely Summer and Mpkoz. There’s so many others I know I’m leaving out though.”
Process
Known for his capability to discover the appeal in prevalent environments, Yun is likewise a fan of classifications and producing operate in a series.
“When I create an illustration, I try for the most part to sub-categorize them into certain series. I think I do my best work in a series,” Yun stated.
“To me, it helps because I like to view the world in a categorical manner. I also think a lot of people do the same subconsciously or consciously. I believe this is why we always place a big emphasis on collecting a set or even collecting in general. For continuity’s sake for myself and also for collecting,” he states. “I try to work with very similar themes from past illustrations.”
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Having moved from the pressure of California to the quieter fields of Wisconsin, Yun is enthusiastic about narrating within his art just by existing and observing what is right in front of him.
“All of my themes come from my experiences, like where I’ve lived and particular memories I’ve had. When I set out to create an illustration, I kind of dwell and think of a composition in my head. For example, if I’m driving somewhere and I see a random thing on the side of the road, I’ll have a composition come to my head, but I then try to shape that composition into a series that I’m working on.”
“Another example might be, if I look out of the window and I see a building, I’ll try to make sure that I’ll use that building as a reference, but the illustration itself will try to embody one of the different themes that I have going on.”
Musings on the brand-new artist/collector relationship through NFTs
Yun states the artist-collector relationship is totally various in the NFT world than in the conventional art world. “Prior to NFTs, artists were represented by galleries, and the galleries were the line of communication for collectors and buyers. It was almost discouraged — and it still is almost discouraged — for artists to do direct transactions or communications with collectors. This is in complete contrast to what is happening right now in the Web3 space,” Yun states.
Like other developers, he associates his existence on social networks to developing a following. “If I’m being honest, I do think part of my success is due to how active I am on Twitter and how willing and eager I am to talk to people.” He includes that he doesn’t believe “the value of art should be entirely dictated by one’s willingness to be active on Twitter.”
“I do feel for people who might not be in their 20s like I am, or who might not be technologically savvy enough or have the experience like I do being around technology essentially since birth.”
Links:
Grant Yun site
Breakdance record and video
Grails III Artist Reveal Show
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