(A better Yokose, not in this show.)
Winston Wächter Fine Art (530 West 25th St, Chelsea) will be exhibiting new works by Hiro Yokose, opening tonight.
http://winstonwachter.com/artist_page_ny.php?folder=Yokose_Hiro
These new works are imagined, romantic landscapes, and look like this:
Yokose's style of encaustic application apparently doesn't mix his pigments into the heated wax, but layers beeswax on top of and between layers of oil, fusing them afterward with a heat gun. He leaves the final layer of oil detailing on top, unwaxed.
Some of Yokose's abstracts are intriguing, but this exhibition looks kind of Bob Ross-y; fantasy dreamscapes that are vaguely decorative. Of course he's more painterly than Ross, but the subtlety of detail doesn't really make up for the lack of theme.
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