Young combines traditional, figurative painting techniques with an immediate and visceral handling of paint that explores the transitory shift of dreaming to awkward reality, and the ideal to the human. Young’s paintings reject the rigid adherence to the idea of the canvas as a window and, in the process, question the necessity of foreground, middle ground and deep space. Conversely, he embraces the modernist approach that acknowledges the painted surface and the physicality of the paint, creating a body of work that promotes a complex relationship between the viewer and the subject. The show will be available for viewing until December 19, 2008.

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