Yuh-Shioh

The Light Behind The Sun
March 9 – April 13

A contemporary art gallery interior featuring spacious, well-lit rooms with modern paintings by Yuh-Shioh Wong on the walls, comfortable seating areas with couches and chairs, and informational brochures on a coffee table.
An art gallery with white walls featuring two abstract paintings by Yuh-Shioh, one large on the left and a smaller one on the right, illuminated by soft gallery lighting.
A minimalist painting by Yuh-Shioh, featuring soft, undulating horizontal lines in muted tones, hung on a light grey wall in a dimly lit art gallery, with a wooden floor.
A minimalist abstract painting by contemporary artist Yuh-Shioh hangs on a plain white wall in a well-lit room with light wooden flooring.

Press Release

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present The Light Behind the Sun, an exhibition of paintings by Yuh-Shioh. Inspired by personal visions and concepts from ancient civilizations,  Yuh-Shioh creates ethereal compositions that are both deliberate and impulsive.

Her interest in Shamanism and the spiritual realm leads Yuh-Shioh to paint atmospheric landscapes that are summoned from her experiences with nature. She uses large Sumi and Hake brushes to apply diluted acrylic paint to stretched raw canvas. Her confident shapes are painted with intention, while watery edges bleed spontaneously into the natural raw canvas surface.

Yuh-Shioh earned a BA in painting at Harvard University and an MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City. She also attended Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in Maine. In 2013 she was the Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Yuh-Shioh currently lives and works in Mount Shasta, California.

Images for this exhibition can be found on our website www.levygallery.com. High-resolution images are available on request. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook: @levygallery #yuhshioh #thelightbehindthesun

Dates: March 9–April 13, 2018
Reception: March 31, 6–8 pm
Dates: March 9–April 13, 2018
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am–4 pm
Location: 514 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 

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Yuh-Shioh