Auxier Kline is pleased to present Blue Dream’s Summer, an online exhibition of ten new works on paper by the Brooklyn-based artist Justin Yoon.

In this new set of drawings, Yoon depicts Blue Dream, a muscular and blue gay persona with a consistently sweaty, glossy appearance. Blue Dream is one of the main characters the artist has been depicting in his work for years. In this ongoing series, which began a couple of summers ago, Yoon approaches the drawings as an attempt to capture the feeling of late summer: the ennui and restlessness caused by the long heat, mixed with the melancholy of the warm months coming to an end. Through these portraits, which have a more exacting approach, the transient nature of the seasons is at the forefront, followed by Blue Dream's unabashed queer sensuality. His constant dripping sweat serves as both a relatable and arousing image with a certain romantic irreverence.