Dustin Yellin

Dustin Yellin (born July 22, 1975) is an American artist living in Brooklyn, New York. His work embeds "hundreds of little pictures, drawings and images clipped out of magazines, art books and the like" to form tableaux in miniature, which the critic Gilda Williams, writing in Artforum, noted provides viewers "the ability to occupy a divine vantage point while enjoying an overwhelming sense of discovery and wonder". These works, which the artist refers to as "Frozen Cinema", have been featured at sites including New York's Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, and the Brooklyn Museum, where Yellin's work is part of the permanent collection. Yellin has likewise participated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist Project. According to Andrew Durbin, "Yellin has formalized the central task of art—to archive: feelings, objects, events, selves—in his large glass blocks, r...