Dustin Yellin Quotes

United States, Artist
July 22, 1975

Dustin Yellin (born July 22, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is a contemporary artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for sculptural paintings that use multiple layers of glass, each covered in detailed imagery, to create a single intricate, three-dimensional collage. His work is notable both for its massive scale and its fantastic, dystopian themes. Yellin is the founder of Pioneer Works, a not-for-profit cultural center, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.

Dustin Yellin
- Reality
As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.

Dustin Yellin
- History
- Death

Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.

Dustin Yellin
- People
- Nature
- Science
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

Dustin Yellin
- People
My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.

Dustin Yellin
- Up
- Kids
- Remember
I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

Dustin Yellin
- Option