Shallow

Shallow

Piece description from the artist

'Shallow’s' rich washes of opaque colors culminate in a soothing and complex abstract composition. The intentionality and care of each brushstroke create a pleasingly balanced picture that is rich and intricate but does not overwhelm with either color or form. This visual equilibrium is tremendously difficult to achieve with the density of mark-making in the center of the canvas. By choosing such a harmonious palette, Yates makes the brushstrokes rhyme and never clash. One could easily argue Shallow is an entirely abstract work with little to no reference to the material world. However, there is something aquatic about the enigmatic passages of acrylic, the way they conceal while simultaneously welcome.

Other works by Josh M. G. Yates

About Josh M. G. Yates

Brooklyn, NY

Born in the English Channel Islands, Josh M. G. Yates moved permanently to the east coast, USA, eventually settling in New York City. He holds a BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts.

In his paintings, esoteric phenomena and landscape imagery are rendered as abstracted layers of color. Also incorporated are drawn elements and other mark making. Repeating symbols are suspended, and intricate images often embedded onto the canvas surface.

Josh, in his words, invites a viewer’s interpretation. He places an emphasis on the power of the collective-unconscious and says that his paintings exist in-part to reveal it.

When embraced through a metaphorical lens, Yates’ paintings, in name and content, often reveal a dramatic conjuration; of the esoteric and the more determinate and dramatically rendered compositions. A weaving of free-form, feverish hand-application and the more intricately rendered scatterings of symbolic motifs across the canvas surface, Josh’s paintings renew with prolonged engagement, particularly together, as though compositionally the paintings are unfixed iterations of one another.

His paintings have been collected in the US and abroad.

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