Rex Yuasa

Yuasa achieves a brilliant, sensory color experience by layering acrylic, oil and alkyd paint over large square canvases. The artist uses the language of abstraction to express the complexity of color with non-traditional combination of metallic, pearlescent, transparent and fluorescent paints. Intricate layers are applied to the to the surface, resulting in an expansive depth-of-field in which color mixes optically. Yuasa's body of work originates in the concept of void, as the artist describes, "a non-signifiable space in which no structure or textuality, hence no narratives would apply."

Born in Tokyo, Yuasa received his B.F.A. in 1990 at San Diego State University, and his M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in 1992. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in both the United States and Japan, and his work is in numerous public and corporate collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan; the Nerima City Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; and the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan. The artist currently lives in San Diego and teaches studio classes as an adjunct lecturer at the University of California, San Diego.