Driven by a fascination with systems of perception, space, colour, light, representation and abstraction, Robert Youds has explored a multitude of forms of practice throughout his career, which predominately revolves around discourses on painting, sculpture, and perception. The show will present works from the past 10 years of Youds' production, and include a new site-specific installation, drawing on the explorations of Youds' recent light works.
”Recognizing that painting has been largely governed by a history of the depiction of natural light, I grew fascinated by the subject of the artificial field by which we live day-to-day,” said Youds. By the mid-1990s Youds became more and more interested in the physical space in which painting and objects within a room were surrounded. ”Space, abstraction, perception, light, and the beholder, are the key ingredients to my meditations on the world,” he states.
Along with the exhibition, a full colour catalogue will be produced with texts by American critics Barry Schwabsky and Saul Ostrow, and interview with Canadian painter Karin Davie. Youds is an alumnus of the University of Victoria, where he graduated from the Visual Arts program in 1978 as well as obtaining a MFA from York University in 1982. He has been a professor at the University of Victoria since 1989.
He was one of the early board members/curator at the Mercer Union gallery, Toronto, in the 1980’s. Youds was represented by Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, since the mid-1980s through to its close in 2004. His work has been represented in Los Angeles by the William Turner Gallery, PostWilshire Gallery, and is currently represented by the Diaz Contemporary Gallery, Toronto.
His art works have been shown broadly since the late 1970’s in solo and group exhibitions in major public institutions including, Site Santa Fe, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Edmonton Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Power Plant. -- www.aggv.bc.ca
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