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Automatic Enigmatic

A Theory of Matter, 2008
oil on canvas
36" x 50"

Easy Ruin, 2008
oil & alkyd on canvas
48" x 62"

New Violence, 2008
oil & alkyd on linen
36" x 52"

The Verdict of History, 2008
oil on linen
12" x 18"

American Magic

& Dread

Permanent Midnight in the Chair of Jasper Johns

Oil on canvas

48" x 60"

The Dark Hearts Seminar

(After Goya's "Duelos a Garratazos and Montoya's Water & Power)

Oil on canvas

48" x 60"

The Broken Bridge Sessions

Oil on canvas

36" x 50"

Hunting for Chemical Signs & Electric Whispers

Oil on canvas

48" x 48"

Passage of the Second Innocent

Oil on canvas

48" x 48"

The Precipice & The Shame

Oil on canvas

48" x 48"

The Tipping Point

Oil on canvas

48" x 60"

York Chang

All the Queens Men, 2008, oil on linen, 24" x 30"

Artist Statement

York Chang is a painter and conceptual artist based in Silverlake, Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited in art galleries and festivals throughout Los Angeles and abroad, including the 2003 Absolut International Los Angeles Biennale, the 2004-2006 FreshStART, and the Santa Monica Art Studios Grand Opening. LA Times and LA Weekly art critics selected him for the 2004 TarFest juried exhibition. He also received a juror prize at the Los Angeles Art Association's Southern California Open Show 2004 from James Elaine, the Projects Curator at the Armand Hammer Museum. In 2006, Chang completed a major two-person exhibition Urban Isolation at the University Art Gallery at Cal State Dominguez Hills with Cal State Long Beach painting professor Yu Ji, followed by a solo show at Lawrence Asher Gallery in 2007. In 2008, Chang participated in Hard Left, the inaugural exhibition of Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin, Germany and created a mixed-media installation project Corpus Collossum at Gallery 727 in Los Angeles. His video work was featured in the 2008 Asian New Media show at the Japanese American National Museum’s Center’s Democracy Forum. Chang also works as a curator, producing the 2007 Dear Jerry Saltz exhibition with artist/co-curator Karyl Newman at the Pharmaka Gallery. Chang serves is a board member of the Los Angeles Art Association and Gallery 825. He was appointed in 2006 by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in 2006 to serve as Vice-President Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles’ Cultural Affairs Commission.

York Chang’s Manifesto (for now)

I. Don't cry about art, work!
II. Always Stand Firmly Against Understanding
III. Compromise Reason and Short-circuit Assumptions.
IV. Spread the word: enigma is a sort of mythology of the postmodernist age, and
the only expression which accurately describes the paradoxical uncertainty of the
information age.
V. There is no substitute for reality, except perhaps the Three Lies
of Painting:

1.) the lie of the materials of a painting, purporting to be something
it is not,
2.) the lie of the subject matter of a painting, carefully
orchestrated by the artist, and
3.) the lie that the viewers tell themselves while looking at
the work.

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles, 2001

Selected Exhibitions

American Magic & Dread, 2007

Lawrence Asher Gallery

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Venice Art Walk - Silent Auction
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave.,

Santa Monica, CA. May 20, 2006

Gem 2006, Official Juror Selection

Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA

April 22, 2006

Fresh stART 2006

Arena 1 Gallery at Santa Monica Art Studios,

Santa Monica, CA. April 22-23, 2006

Brewery ArtWalk: Open Studios

Brewery Art Colony, Los Angeles CA

Studio W-16

Brewery Art Colony, Los Angeles CA

April 17-18, 2006

Installed

Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA

Curated by Barbara Smith

October 7-October 30, 2005

Brewery ArtWalk: Open Studios

Studio W-16

Brewery Art Colony, Los Angeles CA

September 10-11, 2005

20/20 Visions

I-5 Gallery at the Brewery Art Colony

Downtown, Los Angeles, CA

August-September 2005

Mixed Bag, 2005, Official Juror Selection

Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Juror: Kimberly Light (Lightbox Gallery)

July 2005

Fresh stART 2005

Arena 1 Gallery at Santa Monica Art Studios,

Santa Monica, CA

February 12, 2005

Santa Monica Originals w/Frank Gehry, Sam Francis, John Baldessari, & Larry Albright
Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA

Directors/Curators: Sherry Frumkin (of Bergamont Station's Frumkin/Duvall Gallery) and Yossi Govrin

December 11– February 8, 2005

Gallery 825/LA Art Association Open Show 2004, Juror Prize Winner

Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Juror: James Elaine (Hammer Projects Curator, Armand Hammer Museum)

December 11-January 20, 2005