Opening Reception | Charles Yuen: Rhyming the Invisible
When:
Friday, May 05, 2023 5:00p -
8:00p
Friday, May 05, 2023 5:00p -
8:00p
Where:
LaiSun Keane
460C Harrison Ave C8A
Boston, MA 02118
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art
Event website:
https://www.laisunkeane.com/exhibitions/12-rhyming-the-invisible-charles-yuen/
Join us on First Friday, May 5 from 5 - 8 pm for the opening reception for Charles Yuen: Rhyming the Invisible. The artist will be present at the event.
Charles Yuen
Rhyming the Invisible
April 20 - May 28, 2023
At LaiSun Keane
460C Harrison Ave C8A Boston MA 02118
Yuen's work champions absurdity and acceptance, hubris and redemption, conjuring stories that reflect his unique perspective as a Chinese-Japanese-American artist from Hawaii and longtime New York City resident.
The paintings in the exhibition are somewhat iconoclastic in nature, yielding realist's logic to poetic insight. Yuen uses material and intellectual stimuli to explore invisible forces, and the battered and scarred surfaces of his work reflect the process of developing an image.
Yuen's questioning viewpoint is reflected in his work, which resists mass-media's dehumanized generalities to evoke our contemporary condition. The exhibition promises to be a fascinating exploration of identity, culture, and the human experience. As astutely observed by Yau, Yuen’s works evoke a constantly changing polymorphous world, rooted in abstraction and often dislocating, melancholic emotion. His art invites viewers to speculate and reflect on the relationships between culture, history, and nature. They remind us that we all share a common fate.
Charles Yuen, whose career spans over four decades, is a highly awarded artist. He has been the recipient of grants and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2018), Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2011), Joan Mitchell Foundation (2006), Artists’ Projects: New York State Regional Initiative (1993), and an Artist in Residence (1983-4, Asian Arts Institute and New York State Council on the Arts). He has exhibited his works in New York with Pierogi Gallery, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, and Kathryn Markel among others. Reviews of his work have appeared in numerous publications including Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Times and Art In America. He is a founding member of Godzilla, an Asian American Arts Network. He graduated with a BFA from the University of Hawaii in 1975, and obtained an MFA from Rutgers University in 1981.
