About The Artist
Charles Yuen’s early encounters with the emotional potential of art began an enduring interest. After graduating with a BFA from the University of Hawaii (1975), his place of birth, Yuen made his way to New York City, collecting a MFA from Rutgers University (1981) in the process. Inspired by cult...
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LaiSun Keane is a contemporary art gallery located at Sowa Art District in Boston with a focus on providing a platform for non-mainstream voices. 
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Creation Date: 2024
Materials: oil on panel
Dimensions: 16" x 12" x 2"
Condition: New, Excellent
About the Item: Conjuring stories that champion absurdity and acceptance, hubris and redemption—I paint innocent observations of the human condition. Made in a process of discovery and revelation, they offer an archeology of their own creation; pentimenti belies false starts, buried metaphors, and possible diversions.
Somewhat iconoclastic by nature, my paintings yield realist’s logic to poetic insight. I use material and intellectual stimuli to explore invisible forces. With battered and scarred surfaces reflective of developing an image, I hope to resist mass-media’s dehumanized generalities to evoke our contemporary condition.
Being from Hawaii, a longtime New York City resident, with an hyphenated identity (Chinese-Japanese-American), has encouraged unique assumptions on belonging. An unstable cultural perch promotes my questioning viewpoint.
Somewhat iconoclastic by nature, my paintings yield realist’s logic to poetic insight. I use material and intellectual stimuli to explore invisible forces. With battered and scarred surfaces reflective of developing an image, I hope to resist mass-media’s dehumanized generalities to evoke our contemporary condition.
Being from Hawaii, a longtime New York City resident, with an hyphenated identity (Chinese-Japanese-American), has encouraged unique assumptions on belonging. An unstable cultural perch promotes my questioning viewpoint.
About The Artist
Charles Yuen’s early encounters with the emotional potential of art began an enduring interest. After graduating with a BFA from the University of Hawaii (1975), his place of birth, Yuen made his way to New York City, collecting a MFA from Rutgers University (1981) in the process. Inspired by cultural differences in his new environment and an excitement over newly discovered ways of analyzing visual phenomena, Yuen dove into art making’s potential as social critique and personal fulfillment. Part catharsis and part poetics, Yuen has been investigating fluid definitions of realism and irrationality, advocating a subjective logic for humanist expression.
Now living in Brooklyn, NY, he has received 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). Numerous solo exhibitions include Slippery Harmonics of Imagined Phenomena, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Between Here and Now, and Itinerant Visualist, both Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Crypto-somatic Incantation, Studio10, Brooklyn, NY; Casbah Paintings, Art in General, New York, NY; Psychographic, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; Future Paradise, 490 Atlantic, Brooklyn, NY; You Are the Center of the Universe, Valentine Gallery, Queens, NY; Point Arabesque, Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY, and other more generically named shows at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY; Leo.Tony Gallery, New York, NY; Robert Henry Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY; ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA; and the Downtown Gallery, Honolulu, HI.
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