{"id":12478,"date":"2025-06-27T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12478"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:05:25","slug":"michelle-im-hello-goodbye-at-dimin-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/27\/michelle-im-hello-goodbye-at-dimin-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Im, &#8216;Hello, Goodbye&#8217; at Dimin Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Positioned in two rows of eight large sculptures, <a href=\"https:\/\/ratxchicks.club\">Michelle Im<\/a>\u2019s ceramic renditions of Korean Air flight attendants at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimin.nyc\/exhibitions\/30-michelle-im-hello-goodbye\/press_release_text\/\">Dimin Gallery<\/a> stand at the ready, prepared to meet the needs of passengers with a bottle of wine, pot of tea or a demonstration of correct seatbelt usage.\u00a0 Though all subjects wear sincerely pleasant looks, the title of each figure (supplied by the artist\u2019s mother) suggests particular character traits, such as the propensity to talk a lot or show grace.\u00a0 In one of two sculptures named by Im herself and pictured here, the artist applies a family name meaning \u2018to lead the world with her words\u2019 to this figure with her obligingly tilting head, offering a thought-provoking tribute to professionalism and service. (On view in Tribeca through July 11<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/845d5a59-dd6e-1508-66ec-0700c901542f.jpeg\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Im, Gyu-Jin, ceramic, epoxy, enamel, acrylic, 42 x 16 x 11 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 3024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/5d7f74c6-597e-5cb9-c575-6bcb084fc094.jpeg\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Im, (detail) Gyu-Jin, ceramic, epoxy, enamel, acrylic, 42 x 16 x 11 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positioned in two rows of eight large sculptures, Michelle Im\u2019s ceramic renditions of Korean Air flight attendants at Dimin Gallery stand at the ready, prepared to meet the needs of passengers with a bottle of wine, pot of tea or a demonstration of correct seatbelt usage.\u00a0 Though all subjects wear sincerely pleasant looks, the title &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/27\/michelle-im-hello-goodbye-at-dimin-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michelle Im, &#8216;Hello, Goodbye&#8217; at Dimin Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[734,11386,11388,11389,11387,11385,10,7567,9424],"class_list":["post-12478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-ceramics","tag-dimin-gallery","tag-flight-attendants","tag-gyu-jin","tag-korean-air","tag-michelle-im","tag-sculpture","tag-tribeca","tag-tribeca-galleries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3fg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12480,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions\/12480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}