Please stop by and see the paintings by Craig Yu on display at the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts!
The exhibition details are:
- Artist: Craig Yu
- Location: Howard L. Schott Center for the Arts
- Dates: Now through March 28th
- Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 1-5pm
Craig Yu’s oil paintings depict aerial views on tiny, 2×2.5 inch panels. This simple pairing juxtaposes scale with intimacy in paintings that are delicately rendered and fascinating to look at. I highly recommend you stop by and check it out! You can read more in Craig’s statement below.
-Professor Steve Nyktas
About the Artwork
This series of paintings explore the complexities of perception, memory and proximity in relation to representations of the traumatic subject. Through the minimizing of scale, forms within the representations become reductive, creating moments of disconnect between the perceivable image and formal markings. The markings, indefinable as concrete form, nor as representation, resist the recording of visual memory. This inability to translate and memorize parallels the irresolvable condition of the traumatic subject. This disorientation of perception is further enhanced through the vantage points of the paintings being aerial views of the events, dislocating the viewer from the subject with greater proximity. The works end up in a constant state of oscillation between the quiet scale and monochromatic hues of the paintings juxtaposed with the traumatic and haunting nature of the subjects.
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Craig Yu’s work on display at the Schrott
About the Artist
Craig Yu (born 1978) has shown his paintings and drawings in Asia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. He has had solo shows in Switzerland at Häusler Contemporary Zurich; in Chicago at Devening Projects + editions; in Hong Kong at the Goethe Institute Gallery and Art Scene China. His recent work was included as a part of the exhibition Little Dark Things at Häusler Contemporary Munch, and will be exhibited in solo exhibitions at Devening Projects + editions, and Butler University in early 2014. Yu’s work has been shown internationally in Munich and in Zurich at Häusler Contemporary, in Sarajevo at the 22nd International Arts Festival and in New York at the Dorsky Gallery amongst many others. His work can be found in the collections of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in the Pinakothek Der Modern in Munich, Germany and the University of Gloucestershire, including numerous private collections in Asia, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is a recipient of the Mortin Mickenberg/Martin Sosin Fellowship and was a nominee for the Edes prize. He has taught at the University of Illinois and Harold Washington College in Chicago as an adjunct professor. Craig Yu is represented by Devening Projects + editions in Chicago and Häusler Contemporary in Munich and Zurich.