The Elizabeth Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Robert Yasuda. The Gallery is located at 529 West 20th Street, 6th floor, and is open Tuesday through Saturday 10-6. There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, February 5, from 6-8.

Yasuda’s latest paintings continue to explore the illusion of light, space, and transience, and to challenge the placement and shape of traditional paintings. Alternating layers of scrim-like fabric and translucent color on wood panels, he creates paintings that have an inner light. There are paintings that hang in corners, and almost all have irregularly shaped edges. In his essay Robert Morgan says that “the paintings continue to exist in the breach between surface and support, between painting and installation, and between color that is nearly invisible and color that is ambiguously visible.” Yasuda’s paintings are subtle, complex, and take time to reveal themselves. “It is the kind of experience that good painting evokes in us, that brings us out of ourselves into the phenomenon of our senses, and through our senses, we begin to think and ultimately to feel something about the world that we never knew existed.”

Robert Yasuda was born in Hawaii and lives and works in New York. His work is included in major collections including the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Yasuda has exhibited since 1968, showing with Betty Parsons from 1975 until 1984. This is his fifth solo exhibition with the Elizabeth Harris Gallery.

CATALOGUE AVAILABLE – ESSAY BY ROBERT C. MORGAN

For further information please contact Bill Carroll 212-463-9666.