REX YUASA DIOCHROMA
WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY BERGAMOT STATION ARTS CENTER 2525 MICHIGAN AVE., E-1 SANTA MONICA, CA 90404 P 310-453-0909 F 310-453-0908 www.williamturnergallery.com
REX YUASA - DIOCHROMA Santa Monica, CA – William Turner Gallery is honored to present Diochroma, an exhibition of new paintings by Rex Yuasa. In Diochroma, Yuasa integrates a charged palette and differing surface finishes to create complex compositional structures. The artist’s work is infused with an east-west sensibility that perfectly suits his abstract compositions. Utilizing Rakulike glazes to create veils of color, Yuasa references his Japanese heritage and cultural influences. Yet the paintings also speak in the unique vernacular of southern California painting – one thinks of “Finish Fetish” - with their lustrous surfaces and sensual textures. The artist relinquishes narrative content to explore delicate interplays between color, texture and dimension. Repetitive spheres and pearlescent paints are employed to produce rich variations of sheen and transparency, volume and space. Perception of an elusive, subtle beauty is the viewer’s reward. Born in Tokyo, Yuasa received his B.F.A. in 1990 at San Diego State University, and his M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in 1992. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in both the United States and Japan, and his work is in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan; the Nerima City Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; and the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan. The artist currently lives in San Diego and teaches painting at the University of California, San Diego.
F.P.L.M.5, 2011, 72” x 72”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
F.P.M.L.3, 2011, 72” x 72”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
F.P.L.M.L.2, 2011, 72” x 72”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
Contuso, 2004, 84” x 72”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
#19 Aequitas 8-4, 72”x72”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
#17 Aequitas 8-2, 72”x72”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
F.R.P.P.12-2, 2012, 48” x 48”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.L.D.B-2, 2012, 48” x 48”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
F.R.P.P.12-2, 2012, 48” x 48”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
F.P.L.P.1, 2012, 48” x 48”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
F.P.G.P.0.2, 2012, 48” x 48”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
F.P.G.P.0.1, 2012, 48” x 48”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.L.D.R.1, 2012, 48” x 48”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
F.P.M.1, 36” x 36”, Acrylic, Oil & Alkyd on Canvas
F.P.M.9, 36” x 36”, Acrylic, Oil & Alkyd on Canvas
F.P.M.10, 36”x36” Acrylic, Oil & Alkyd on canvas
D.C.M.-2013-4, 36” x 60”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.C.M.-2013-5, 36” x 60”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.C.M.-2013-2, 36” x 60”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.C.M.-2013-6, 36” x 60”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.C.M.S-2013-2, 36” x 54”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.C.M.S-2013-1, 36” x 54”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.C.M.-2013-3, 36” x 60”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
D.C.M.-2013-1, 36” x 60”, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas
REX YUASA: DIOCHROMA 1964 born in Tokyo, Japan Lives and works in San Diego, CA Represented by: William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Associated with: Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA EDUCATION 1994 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1993 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine 1992 B.F.A., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA SOLO EXHIBITONS 2013 2008 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1996 1995 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988
Diochroma, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Baroque, Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan Vulgar, Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan New Paintings, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO. Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan MOVE, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan Ryuhei Rex Yuasa – Recent Work, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, University Art Gallery, Cal State San Bernardino, San Barnardino, CA Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Gallery UEDA Décor, Tokyo, Japan Ryuhei Rex Yuasa – New Paintings, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO Delayed Zip 2, The Small Projects Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX Delayed Zip, Gallery UEDA Décor, Tokyo, Japan Tenebrous Vision, Thesis Exhibition, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA Paintings, Main Gallery, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA Paintings, Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Innocent Cosmology 3, Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Innocent Cosmology2, Flor Y Canto, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Innocent Cosmology, LA Nicola Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Rediscovering: Oil Paintings of Japan – What’s Next in Oil Paintings, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan 2009 Neo Abstract 21, Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan 2008 Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair, Hotel New Otani, Tokyo, Japan Sanbishousha – Ueda Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan Sanbishousha – Ueda Collection II, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Art, Japan
2007 Yuasa Joji Exhibition 2007 –Koriyama City Museum of Art The 15th Anniversary, Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan 2007 Sanbishousha - Ueda Collection, Nerima City Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2007 Contemporary Artists Biography curated by Yoshio Kato – 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Osaka Zoukei Center, Osaka, Japan 2004 L.A. Years, Part 1, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Christopher Grimes Gallery, 2003 KIAF Korea International Art Fair: Special Exhibition JAPAN, Light of the East, Soul, Korea 2001 Pleasure of Retinal Paintings: Kazumi Nakamura and Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan Pleasure of Retinal Paintings: Kazumi Nakamura and Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Kaigan Dori Gallery CASO, Osaka, Japan Paintings Beyond Formalism For Interactionism, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan 2000 Fast Five Years at Grand Arts, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO 1998 Shouwa SHELL Gasoline Contemporary Art Award, Meguro Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1997 Art Today 10th Anniversary, Opera Aperta, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan Works On Paper 1997, University Of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX 1996 Artists Reception, Mezzanine at Towers, Irvine, CA 1995 Art Today 95, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan Morphologia, currated by Kazuhiro Yamamoto at Tochigi Prefectral Museum of Fine Art, Akira Ikeda Gallery TAURA, Kanagawa, Japan V.O.C.A, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan National Small Painting Exhibition, New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Small Works on Paper, Cimarron Art National, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma 1994 Beyond Bounds II, A Barely Contained Art Affairs, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, MO 1993 Sean Kelley Presents, Sean Kelley Studio, Kansas City, MO 1991 New Talents for New Century: Young American Artists, The Hammond Gallery, Lancaster, OH 1990 Mixed Metaphors, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA 1987 O Nepenthean Omniscient, San Diego, CA LECTURES 2007 Artist Talk, “Sanbishousha – Ueda Collection”, Nerima City Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2001 Artist Interview, Kaigan Dori Gallery CASO, Osaka, Japan Artist Interview, Osaka Zoukei Center, Osaka, Japan 1996 California State University San Barnardino, San Barnardino, CA 1996 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine 1990 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 1989 Mira Costa College, Mira Costa, CA AWARDS 1997 1996 1990 1990
Shouwa SHELL Gasoline Contemporary Art Award, Tokyo, Japan, Holbein Paint Art award, Tokyo, Japan Calarts Scholarship, Valencia, CA Skowhegan School Scholarship, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
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