#467: Dustin Yellin on Making Art, Weaving Madness, and Forging Your Own Path

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

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Dustin Yellin on Making Art, Weaving Madness, and Forging Your Own Path | Brought to you by Wealthfront, Zero Fasting, and ExpressVPN

“I don’t worry about inspiration as much as system overload.” — Dustin Yellin

Dustin Yellin (@dustinyellin) is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the founder and director of Pioneer Works, a multidisciplinary cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world. He and his incredible work have been featured by media and organizations including The New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, and TED.

Drawing on both modernism and the sacred tradition of Hinterglas painting, Yellin primarily works through a unique form of three-dimensional photomontage, in which paint and images clipped from various print media are embedded within laminated glass sheets to form grand pictographic allegories, which Dustin calls “frozen cinema.” These totemic and kaleidoscopic works often plumb the history and fate of human consciousness within the Anthropocene (see examples here).

Dustin’s art has been exhibited at or with the Amorepacific Museum, Brooklyn Museum, City Museum, Colección Solo, Corning Museum of Glass, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Museo Del Palacio de Bellas Artes, SCAD Museum of Art, Tacoma Museum, and Creative Time, among many others. He holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

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0:00.0	Hello boys and girls, this is Tim Ferris and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris show where it is my job to deconstruct world class performers interview people from all different disciplines to tease out the habits routines, favorite books, etc.
0:12.5	that you can use my guest today is a madman, Dustin Yellen.
0:18.5	And you may not have heard this name, but by the end of this conversation, you'll definitely look him up.
0:24.3	Dustin Yellen, Y-E-L-L-I-N on Instagram at Dustin Yellen, is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, New York and is the founder and director of Pioneerworks, a multi-disciplinary cultural center in Red Hook Brooklyn that builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world.
0:39.3	It's a beautiful, beautiful facility.
0:42.3	So if and when you can check it out, I highly recommend.
0:44.3	He and his incredible work have been featured by media and organizations worldwide, including the New York Times, art form, vanity fair and Ted.
0:52.3	Okay, so here we go. The next paragraph will make a lot more sense if you first go to Dustin Yellen.com and look at Psycho Geography or Google Dustin Yellen Psycho Geography and look at the images.
1:06.3	That all having been said.
1:08.3	Drawing on both modernism and the sacred tradition of interglass painting, Yellen primarily works through a unique form of three-dimensional photo montage,
1:16.3	in which paint and images clipped from various print media are embedded within laminated glass sheets to form grand pictographic allegories, which Dustin calls Frozen Cinema.
1:26.3	But wait, there's more. These totemic and kaleidoscopic works often plum the history and fate of human consciousness within the anthropocene.
1:34.3	Again, that might not sound like it makes any sense, but it makes a whole lot of sense if you look for Dustin Yellen Psycho Geography.
1:43.3	And we will do our best to also include a photograph of one of those at Tim.Blog if you just search his name.
1:50.3	Dustin's art has been exhibited at or with the Amor Pacific Museum. I'm going to mispronounce a bunch of stuff here.
1:56.3	Could be Amor Pacific AMORI Museum, Brooklyn Museum, City Museum, collection, collection solo, Corning Museum of Glass, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,
2:07.3	Museo del Palacio de Belas Artes, Beas Artes, I'm not sure.
2:12.3	SCAD or SCAD Museum of Art, Tacoma Museum, and Creative Time among many others.
2:18.3	He holds an honorary doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
2:22.3	You can find him again on Instagram at Dustin Yellen or at Dustin Yellen.com, Y-E-L-L-I-N, and also at pioneerworks.org.
2:33.3	Please enjoy this incredible ride, this roller coaster, through the mind and psyche and life of Dustin Yellen.
2:44.3	This episode is brought to you by zero, ZERO, the world's most popular fasting app.
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