Yek Wong, acrylic latex on canvas over panel, Forrest Floor


Arrangement #24 (Open Fields, Night) (same materials)


Lies (2000)

Singapore painter, there is something ludcrious, cartoonish about the colours and shapes here--like helicopter panels, hot rods, subway doors, something slightly futuristic, and manga/animeish, it really is a pop updating on the landscape tendecies of post minimalism, did his post grad under dave hickey in vegas, and undergrad in texas, which i think is important, but m not sure why, it really is an overlapping of colour as geographic signifer

The Lies seires, reminds me of a less literal euan macdonald or a self mocking peter halley and explictly connected to a kind of reducto ad absurdum, with regards to graphic tendencies and narratives (they are panels of a comic book, but just the abstract bits, and because they reduce so far, and because they are about fiction, they are lies, its cute)

He goes by first names only, and calls himself the Barry White of post-conceptual painting

more hereand here from the brilliant Western Projects Gallery, in Culver City, California
here is an article) and another from a gallerist in seattle