Patrick Hayman

Little Dragon

1985

Contemporary abstract mixed media on paper by Belgian artist Francis Besson, signed bottom right. Francis was born in Dundee (Scotland) in 1943 however...

Robert Yasuda Sustain, 2020 Acrylic on fabric on wood 92 x 2.5 inches RY119 Robert Yasuda is known for luminous multi-panel paintings on carved wood tha...

Robert Yasuda Aloha, 2022 Acrylic on fabric on wood 48 x 32 inches RY111 Robert Yasuda is known for luminous multi-panel paintings on carved wood that transmit and transform light. Notable installations include large, site-specific paintings at MoMA PS1 in an exhibition organized by Alanna Heiss in 2016. The exhibition, titled Forty, was a collection of work by artists who were key participants in the 1970s alternative art spaces movement and the early years of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. During the 1970s, Yasuda’s work was showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Clocktower Gallery, New York; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Early gallery exhibitions include solo shows at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger (Zurich and St. Moritz), 1968 and 1969, and in 1975, the first of five shows at Betty Parsons Gallery...

Robert Yasuda Boundary, 2010-2020 Acrylic on fabric on wood 80 x 50 inches RY106 Robert Yasuda is known for luminous multi-panel paintings on carved woo...

Robert Yasuda Na Hoa, 2022 Acrylic on fabric on wood 55 x 16 inches RY099 Robert Yasuda is known for luminous multi-panel paintings on carved wood that ...

This recent body of work is informed by my continuing research into the physical and metaphorical nature of archaeological artefacts and votive objects, allied to the referencing of the symbolic forms and materiality of alchemy. Central to this practical investigation has been the use of ‘gold’, and the qualities that the material, with its obvious chromatic and symbolic values, seems to possess. This has driven both the conceptual and pragmatic concerns within the evolution of this work. Gold is an alluring and complex symbol of many, often conflicting meanings, avarice, greed, wealth but also of purity and celebration, and has been used as the adornment of spiritual and religious iconography as a devotional act for millennia. The titles refer to connections I have made with the forms themselves, often when making a painting a word will emerge which acts as a form of poetic catalyst. ‘Parsival’ or Percivale/Peredur was the knight questing for the holy grail...