Rex Yuasa

Abstract Painter

currently represented by
William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan


Yuasa achieves a brilliant, sensory color experience by layering acrylic, oil and alkyd paint over large square canvases. The artist uses the language of abstraction to express the complexity of color with non-traditional combination of metallic, pearlescent, transparent and fluorescent paints. Intricate layers are applied to the to the surface, resulting in an expansive depth-of-field in which color mixes optically. Yuasa's body of work originates in the concept of void, as the artist describes, "a non-signifiable space in which no structure or textuality, hence no narratives would apply."

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 corporate 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 te...

1990 BFA, San Diego Sate University, San Diego, CA
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1992 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Online Exhibition Catalogue
http://www.williamturnergallery.com/ONLINE%20CATALOGS/REXYUASA/Yuasa2013.htm

Exhibition Video Presentation
http://www.williamturnergallery.com/Artists/Artist%20Videos/YuasaVideo/Yuasa.htm