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Tinsquo's curatorial project, Adjacent To Life, presents Things From The First Floor: Paintings by Yuri Tayshete.
With luscious, seemingly incandescent brushstrokes, Yuri Tayshete’s paintings of fruit, candy, cakes, cups of coffee and other comforting treats demonstrate the tantalizing notion that aesthetic delectation – reveling in the pleasure of sumptuous paint handling and pitch-perfect color calibration - can be as nourishing as caloric intake and longer lasting than a mere sugar-high.
The artist states:
My ultimate goal is in finding harmony in the universe by looking at everyday things that affirm each other. I want to portray this view of the world through my still life paintings. My paintings also bring out the dialog between light and shadow; inorganic and organic; and natural and synthetic.I employ alla prima techniques to emphasize the ephemerality of my painting. This renders the freshest and cleanest colors, which give the paintings a vivid and playful atmosphere. In addition to the alla prima technique, painting primarily with a large brush provides bold and dynamic forms to my paintings.
Through a truncated, bird's-eye-view of the composition, I aim to invoke contemporary aesthetics, poetic, calm, and isolated feelings. These paintings hope to capture the fleeting, yet strong relations that exist between ordinary objects. No same painting can be created if any one of the elements of those everyday things is changed, denied, or disconnected, including myself.
Things From The First Floor is on view through December 4 at the Adjacent to Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City).
