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Charles Yuen

Charles Yuen
Life Roller Coaster  oil on canvas  60 x 78 inches  2008
 

Charles Yuen

Charles Yuen
Mechanical Systems  oil on canvas  48 x 40 inches  2008
 

Charles Yuen

Charles Yuen
Offshore Drilling  oil on canvas  66 x 54 inches  2008
 

Charles Yuen

Charles Yuen
Magnetic Resonance Imaging  oil on canvas  66 x 54 inches  2008
 

CHARLES YUEN
2004 Exhibition

Charles Yuen
September 12 - October 11, 2008

In this season charged with political ferment and possibility Metaphor is pleased to present an artist whose engagement with the world around him is readily apparent in the content of his work.

In lush and carefully crafted paintings Charles Yuen constructs provocative tableaux utilizing a personal yet universal pictographic vocabulary to map his trenchant worldview. Yuen's paintings lead us on a whimsical yet deadly serious exploration into some of the dualities which sharply define modern life, nature vs. industrial and military culture, spiritual yearning vs. rampant materialism, and the place of human contact in an increasingly technological landscape. Observing a political and material terrain of confusing complexity, Yuen probes the limits of our own ability to comprehend this mad creation of our own making and our need or desire to escape into a saturated slipstream of media. This may sound like the description of a distinctly dystopian vision, yet Yuen's paintings are always leavened by a gentle even wistful humor. Monks sit in meditation beside a wheezing industrial Golem. Men wear giant bird heads and silently observe our follies. Tears flow upward and a rollercoaster twists and turns in a Mobius loop of uncertainty. Yuen addresses his politics in the language of dreams against fields of radiant linear energy which feel like the collective hum of our thoughts. His paintings at once amuse, inform, challenge, and terrify.

Charles Yuen

Charles Yuen
The Road  oil on canvas  30 x 24 inches  2008
 

Charles Yuen

Charles Yuen
Did you sign your check?  oil and collage on paper  30 x 20 inches  2008
 

Charles Yuen

Charles Yuen
Some Say  oil on canvas  48 x 40 inches  2008
 

Charles Yuen

Charles Yuen
Bird Vision  oil and collage on paper  30 x 20 inches  2008
 

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