Meet-the-Artist: Leonard Yang
Dec 16, 2023 at 2pm (following Groupmuse performance by Shaina Pan and Corina Santos)
In conjunction with "Embrace" at Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, California 94107
Two of Leonard Yang's works Old Houses no. 1 and Old Houses no. 2 are available and currently displayed as part of "Embrace" exhibition from Dec 1 to 23, 2023.
Leonard Yang is a Singaporean artist based in New York and Singapore. Utilizing axonometric perspective, romantic tones, luminous hues, thick and thin glazes of paint, he creates paintings that describe the changing social landscape we face today: Man-made dwellings, monuments, apartment blocks, and architecture meet minutely detailed landscapes comprising trees, rocks, sky, sea, flowers, and other little observations in the natural environment. These paintings are liminal spaces that reflect on places of healing, ethnic identity, sustainability, native histories, geographical boundaries, as well as the emotional connection towards an adopted home vis-à-vis one’s ethnographical place of origin.
Leonard studied at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (BFA 2015), and Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, NY (MFA 2019). His work has been featured at the The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICAS), Singapore; The Visual Arts Development Association (VADA), Singapore; Dongdaemun Design Centre, Korea; the National Gallery Indonesia; Atlantic Gallery, NY; Gallery MC, NY; and La Bodega Gallery, NY. He has held residencies at Millay Arts, NY, USA, in 2022 and the Goethe Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2017.
