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KEVIN YAUN
IN BETWEEN WALLS October 12 - November 9, 2024 Opening reception: Saturday, October 12, 4-7pm |
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Billis Williams Gallery is pleased to present KEVIN YAUN: IN BETWEEN WALLS, the gallery’s first solo exhibition by the Los Angeles-based painter. In Between Walls features the artist’s most recent medium and large scale oil paintings centered around the idea of home. The exhibition opens with a reception on October 12th and continues through November 9th.
In this new series, Kevin Yaun is visualizing his idea of home and exploring the distortion he sees in that relationship. Yaun was born in Georgia and over the last 20 years has moved almost yearly and lived all over the world: Colorado, The Netherlands, England, Thailand, Singapore, and California to name a few. This transient lifestyle brought with it a deep understanding of the many faceted concept of home. ‘Home’ has become an abstract - a place that doesn’t exist, an unknown location to long for, an unattainable dream to strive for, or finding home wherever one finds oneself.
The winding pathway to find or create home is echoed in the process Yaun works through in these paintings. Building layer upon layer, Yaun is experimenting and testing on each canvas. The history of these accumulated thoughts in paint create a depth and a texture that belies the elegant simplicity of the final composition. The titles speak to the complicated notion of home - Shiny Object (something to be desired), Pacific Coast (home to the wealthy few), Window (wistfully looking through or at).
Kevin Yaun’s canvases blur the line between abstraction and representation. They play with color fields and architecture, geometry and landscape. They center the viewer in an ambiguous location: are we inside looking out? Are we outside looking in? And yet these paintings are not portraits or specific narratives - they invite the viewer into the conversation. Figures wait patiently - often alone but seemingly not lonely - they are pensive, considering. Yaun cites the likes of Rothko and Diebenkorn as influencing his work and one can see a lineage. And yet Yaun’s work is for and of this moment. This moment where home can be far away for a plethora of reasons (economic unattainability, increasingly transient lifestyles) - where home is what we create in each moment.
KEVIN YAUN (b. 1986) received his BFA from Savannah College of Art & Design in 2008 and his MFA from Laguna College of Art & Design in 2024. His paintings have been featured at the Laguna Art Museum as well as at numerous exhibitions and fairs throughout the US and are included in private collections internationally. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
For all press inquiries, please contact 310.838.3685 or [email protected]
For all other inquiries, please contact Tressa Williams at [email protected]
In this new series, Kevin Yaun is visualizing his idea of home and exploring the distortion he sees in that relationship. Yaun was born in Georgia and over the last 20 years has moved almost yearly and lived all over the world: Colorado, The Netherlands, England, Thailand, Singapore, and California to name a few. This transient lifestyle brought with it a deep understanding of the many faceted concept of home. ‘Home’ has become an abstract - a place that doesn’t exist, an unknown location to long for, an unattainable dream to strive for, or finding home wherever one finds oneself.
The winding pathway to find or create home is echoed in the process Yaun works through in these paintings. Building layer upon layer, Yaun is experimenting and testing on each canvas. The history of these accumulated thoughts in paint create a depth and a texture that belies the elegant simplicity of the final composition. The titles speak to the complicated notion of home - Shiny Object (something to be desired), Pacific Coast (home to the wealthy few), Window (wistfully looking through or at).
Kevin Yaun’s canvases blur the line between abstraction and representation. They play with color fields and architecture, geometry and landscape. They center the viewer in an ambiguous location: are we inside looking out? Are we outside looking in? And yet these paintings are not portraits or specific narratives - they invite the viewer into the conversation. Figures wait patiently - often alone but seemingly not lonely - they are pensive, considering. Yaun cites the likes of Rothko and Diebenkorn as influencing his work and one can see a lineage. And yet Yaun’s work is for and of this moment. This moment where home can be far away for a plethora of reasons (economic unattainability, increasingly transient lifestyles) - where home is what we create in each moment.
KEVIN YAUN (b. 1986) received his BFA from Savannah College of Art & Design in 2008 and his MFA from Laguna College of Art & Design in 2024. His paintings have been featured at the Laguna Art Museum as well as at numerous exhibitions and fairs throughout the US and are included in private collections internationally. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
For all press inquiries, please contact 310.838.3685 or [email protected]
For all other inquiries, please contact Tressa Williams at [email protected]
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Billis Williams Gallery opened as George Billis Gallery Los Angeles in 2004. Tressa Williams joined as director in 2009 and became partner in 2021. Billis Williams Gallery builds on the Billis legacy and shows emerging to mid-career artists with a special focus on Southern California painters. The gallery is dedicated to exhibiting exceptional work in richly varied visual vocabularies ranging from abstraction to photorealism.
Billis Williams Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
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www.BillisWilliams.com
Billis Williams Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
[email protected]
www.BillisWilliams.com