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Charles Yuen
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My paintings propose a poetics of the human psyche - a peacefully delirious kingdom where association and metaphor coexist with rationality. Using a rich mix of compassion and humor, experience and innocence, criticism and acceptance, I work toward a dreamlike complexity to induce a mesmerized uncertainty.
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Deploying fragments of stories, parts of dramas, mindful of their socialconstruct, I see parody as an underlying structure. Existing in acontemporary state of certainty and doubt, with its many distractionsand multifarious inputs, I do my art as an attempt to make sense of itall. To create a space for speculation, a visual stimulus thatencourages the eye and mind to wander.
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Of his work, a reviewer in ‘Art in America’ wrote: ‘He is a merry mockerof popular notions of the dark or shadow side of the psyche. . . .theyinvite our complicity in their on-canvas revolt against conventions.’
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION : 1. - Arabic Constellation; 54 x 66 in.; oil on canvas; 2004. 2. - World Trouser Center; 36 x 28 in.; oil on canvas; 2003. 3. - Well of Tears; 78 x 60 in.; oil on canvas; 2003. 4. - Life Along Denial; 60 x 78 in.; oil on canvas; 2001. 5. - Oceanicish; 54 x 66 in.; oil on canvas; 2002. 6. - Men and Bugs; 48 x 40 in.; oil on canvas; 2004.
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