NYAB Event - Robert Yasuda "New Explorations in Light and Perception"

Robert Yasuda "New Explorations in Light and Perception"

Sundaram Tagore Gallery

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Robert Yasuda composes subtly iridescent paintings suffused with luminous color. For his first solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York, the Hawaiian-born artist presents a new body of work investigating the fugitive qualities of light and human perception. Layering acrylic paint and sheer, woven fabric atop sculpted wooden panels, Yasuda builds surfaces that are at once ethereal and architectural. His works assume different guises according to changes in light and the viewer’s vantage point. Yasuda steers the viewer’s act of looking: His subtle details slow the perception of his work, forcing viewers to navigate a shifting terrain of color and diaphanous veils of paint.

Defying the traditional boundaries of painting, Yasuda’s works possess a floating quality. He carves wooden panels into unusual forms with sharp upturned corners, softly rounded edges or subtly curved contours. Attaching covert cradle-like wooden structures behind several paintings, he forces the works forward into space giving them a distinctly sculptural quality. In other cases, he suspends his works from narrow supports creating dramatic T-shaped compositions. Yasuda is continuously rebelling against the conventional painting frame and introducing new means of context and framing.

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