Mirena Rhee

Multiplanetary Artist

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Future and In Progress
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Drawing and Painting
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Animation and 3d
Body Canvas
Photography
Blog
About
Contact
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I arrived in New York City with a decade of my creative life contained on one or two hard drives /September 20, 2026 by Mirena Rhee

I built entire worlds that weighted almost nothing.

Mars to me is personal, its fucking personal okay? →

Hands Times Square Animation

Essays

NYC Garbage

I was kicked out of the Armory Show for making Art

All of my work in New York was about New York

I Identify with the Cosmos

Why Paintings are Beautiful

The Couch

What Is It to Have

Great Art vs. Bad Art

Giant Hands Installations 2018 - 2021 — Giant Hands Installations

Themes

Animated Pen and Ink Drawings 27
Art and artists 89
Art around the Bay Area 6
Art in New York 57
Book I am Writing 3
Essays 3
In and around New York 54
Ingredients of a Subwa... 23
Installations 63
Minimalism 1
Painting 11
Pen and Ink Drawings 92
Performance 43
Philosophy 12
Photography 25
Projects 47
Sculpture 2
Shows 37
Some of my Cartoons 3
Space! 1
Star Wars 9
State of Material World 3
SupeFun 5
Uncategorized on Purpose 181
Wearable 4
What My Mac Reads to Me 1
Work 175

Mark My Words

Turned off animations on my android phone - like time travel, saved years of my life watching spinning circles.

According to Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans - they were all mass murderers except for Cicero and Demosthenes, and not a single woman in there.

The corporate state apparatus obfuscates the individual through the generation of bonding and domestication rituals, labeling and enumeration.
The purpose of my installations and performance is to create art state machines that oppose and redirect the corporate state machine by creating spontaneous creative rituals.

The universe is the ultimate art-making machine and the ultimate art protocol.

Art is long form. Short form is decoration.

Giant Hands Installations Book

Truncated Octahedron

Hand Drawn Archimedean Solids

A series of Archimedean Solids pen and ink drawings, 8 x 11 inches, 2019

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December 8, 2020

Hands Electric New York City

December 8, 2020

Digital Video, dimensions variable, 2020

Animation created during the Manhattan Lockdown due to the Covid Pandemic, inspired by New York City and its people.

Watch high resolution video here:
https://www.mirenarhee.art/electric-nyc-animation-mirena-rhee.mp4

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December 8, 2020

Memory Replacement World Trade Center — Memory Replacement World Trade Center Performance

Ingredients of a Subway CarPerformance and Installation with pen and Ink Drawings — Ingredients of a Subway Car

Ingredients of a Subway car - The R

Heterochromia — Ingredients of a Subway Car -Heterochromia

Ingredients of a Subway Car - animation and simulation with pen and ink drawings

Japanese Gardens: A Journey Into Zen Kindle Editionby Mirena Rhee (Author, Photographer and Poet) — Japanese Gardens: A Journey Into Zen Kindle Edition
by Mirena Rhee (Author, Photographer and Poet)

Books to read before you die. Imagine how incredible our lives are today - we can listen to the greatest minds of humankind in the bathroom

Leonardo da Vinciby Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL — Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL

Steve Jobsby Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL — Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL

Einstein. His Life and Universeby Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL — Einstein. His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL

The hero with a thousand facesby Joseph Campbell - borrow from the NYPL — The hero with a thousand faces
by Joseph Campbell - borrow from the NYPL

The Masters

Henry David Thoreau

Buckminster Fuller

Best of Humanity

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Songwriter: John Winston Lennon

The Best Websites on the Internet

To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.

And my favorite question - but make sure to check out their last question as well:

WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN?

and

https://gutenberg.org/

Just books.

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