November Issue 2000
Works by Andrew Young at UNC-Charlotte's Rowe Gallery
UNC Charlotte's Rowe
Arts Gallery in Charlotte, NC, invites the public to view Brief
Sentences, an exhibition of intimate collage works by Chicago
artist, Andrew Young on view through Dec. 4. Young's work has
been featured in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and
internationally (New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Berlin,
to name a few locations). He has lectured and taught workshops
in Pakistan, Germany, and Ecuador as well as in the US.
Young is best known for large paintings using the obscure medium
of egg tempera, which, because of its technical difficulty, is
usually limited to small scale works. Young has shifted course,
however, over the past few years, and is now making small, elegant
collage works, using papers he hand paints with pigments he hand-mixes
with gum arabic. His medium has changed, but his proclivity for
esoteric methods and materials remains.
Young's mostly abstract collages present a playful, sometimes
melancholic quest for a lost sensibility, often feeling like the
visual equivalent of a diary. They value what is intimate, delicate,
and hand-crafted in a time when society is rushing with headlong
speed away from these qualities. Young imbeds images reminiscent
of nineteenth century natural history illustrations in a primarily
abstract format. He combines allusions to multiple styles, locales,
and time periods to make works infused with the history of art.
His collages blend a golden "Italianate" palette with
an "Oriental" sense of space; they show the influence
of early works of European and American abstraction along side
influence from the time Young spent in Pakistan at the Lahore
National College of Arts. However, despite all of these distinct
references and sources, the work presents a coherent and elegantly
beautiful whole.
In addition to the finished collages, the exhibition will include
a selection of items from Young's personal collection of art and
artifacts and an installation that approximates Young's studio
work environment. These materials are being presented as a way
of demystifying art as "finished product" and incorporating
into the exhibition a glimpse of the process behind the product.
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