Between Here and Now July 30, 2022 - August 28, 2022
Charles Yuen Mycelial Substrate, 2022, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches
Charles Yuen Reading List, 2021, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches
Charles Yuen Phantom Landscape, 2022, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches
Charles Yuen Double Bird Vision, 2014, oil and collage on canvas, 40 x 48 inches
Charles Yuen Hive, 2014, oil on canvas, 66 x 54 inches
Charles Yuen Miles From Nowhere, 2021, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches
Charles Yuen Mesozoic Librarians, 2022, oil on canvas, 54 x 66 inches
Charles Yuen Grateful Dead, 2021, oil on canvas, 40 x 48 inches
Charles Yuen Humans Pretending to be Trees, 2022, oil on canvas, 40 x 48 inches
Charles Yuen On the Road, 2009, oil on canvas, 36 x 28 inches
Charles Yuen Back and Forth, 2022, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches
Charles Yuen Hopes and Dreams, 2022, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches
Charles Yuen Woodland Ectoplasm, 2022, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches
Charles Yuen Three Trees, 2022, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches
Charles Yuen Tree X-Ray, 2022, oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches
Charles Yuen Imitating the Cosmos, 2022, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches
Charles Yuen Water Falling, 2022, oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches
Charles Yuen Things That Fly, 2022, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches
Charles Yuen Strolling, 2022, oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches
Charles Yuen RGB, 2022, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches
Charles Yuen Ladder Hands, 2022, oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches
Charles Yuen Up and Down, 2022, oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches
Infused with hope and loss, Charles Yuen’s paintings report on the weathered conditions of our humanness. Rich in metaphor and allusion Yuen’s restless eye belies a stillness grounded in compassion.
As John Yau writes, “Relying on an ever-expanding vocabulary culled from a wide range of sources, including Asian art, Persian miniatures, ornithology, cartoons, scientific diagrams, Op Art, and outsider art, Yuen assembles what I have come to think of as visual ideograms, complex possibilities whose ambiguous meanings reverberate” (Hyperallergic, 2020).
This is Charles Yuen’s second solo show with Pamela Salisbury Gallery. His extensive exhibition history includes The Brooklyn Museum of Art; Elizabeth Harris Gallery; The Asian American Arts Center; Artists Space; The Newark Museum, The New Museum, among others. He is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellow, 2018; the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 2011; and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2006. Reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Art Critical, Art in America,The Brooklyn Rail,Hyperallergic, and numerous other publications.