Translucent and transparent

robert Yasuda

Robert Yasuda will be presenting sculpted paintings that utilize reflective color and the gallery's changing natural light. Building upon ideas he has developed over forty years Yasuda continues his exploration of depth through the layering of materials and the carving and shaping of surfaces. The resulting works are dynamic: their complex nature is slowly revealed as they come in relation with different levels of light as well as the viewer's changing placement in front of the work.

Yasuda was born in Hawaii in 1940, moved to New York City in the late 50’s and continues to live and work there. First exhibiting in 1965, Yasuda has had 30 solo exhibitions internationally, and over 80 group exhibitions to date. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts award, The John Hay Whitney Grant, a purchase award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has work is in the collections of The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut; The McNay Museum,San Antonio Texas, The Bass Museum, Miami Florida; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and others.

Public conversation with Lilly Wei: Sunday, May 1, 4pm:
SoHo, Architecture and Art-making
Robert Yasuda moved to New York from his native Hawaii in his early twenties. He was in SoHo in the late 60s and early 70s and participated in the artistic movements that were directly influenced by the architecture and spaces in which artists lived in - minimalism was born out of the loft culture. Yasuda will discuss this era and its influence on his work, life, social circle, and neighborhood with writer, journalist, and curator Lilly Wei.

GALLERY HOURS:

Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, the Perlemeter Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.