NYAB Event - Andrew Kuo "You Say Tomato"

Andrew Kuo "You Say Tomato"

Marlborough Chelsea

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Andrew Kuo’s emotional metrics function as poetic abstraction with an internal logic of empiricism at its core. In this sense, paradoxically, his chart paintings are representational - depicting a complex, real-time universe of self- examination and the judgement of others. Like Kuo’s beloved Sabermetrics sports analytics system (popularized in the book and movie Moneyball), they are a cooly factual exploration of the heart’s entanglements, and one that often privileges the underdog with hidden talents. An equal adherent to fantasy sports (with it’s dependence on an ordered, statistical quantification of achievement) and the maudlin, perpetually lovelorn diaspora of Emotional Hardcore music, these paintings are relentlessly categorized inventories of the artists’ misgivings about his longing for and the failures of a universal “you”. The “you” of a song that allows so many to relate to its heartswell of its positive sentiments, but also the implicit blame of its critical kiss-offs.