opening Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 18.00 - 21.00

Aeroplastics Contemporary is pleased to present the work of New York-based artist Carrie Yamaoka, in her second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Yamaoka's paintings resist classification as painting and refuse to remain the same from minute to minute. For the past fifteen years the artist has worked with reflective mylar, resin and various coloring agents as her media. The works generate a constant flow of visual and perceptual information depending on how the viewer situates him/her self in relation to the object.

Some of the more recent works incorporate interference pigments and phosphorescent tints, making way for an extended range of play with the possibilities of light—the light created both in the work and by the work. Most recently, the artist is stressing the object-ness of the work, welcoming more of the chance incidents derived from process, to eke out a wider spatial and experiential gamut.

Edward Leffingwell of Art in America has said:

Yamaoka's radical paintings maintain a position among those rather racy art objects that mediate between painting and sculpture.

According to Roberta Smith, art critic of The New York Times: Ms. Yamaoka's sumptuous yet unassuming paintings constitute a kind of Situationist Minimalism. They are physically specific and implacable. … Like Robert Ryman's work, Ms. Yamaoka's is a reverent dissection of the modernist monochrome, but she also partakes of a more parodistic approach, exemplified by Robert Rauschenberg's "White Paintings", from the early 1950's, in which the viewer's shadow becomes part of the work. However you parse them, her efforts intimate a rejuvenation of Minimalism, spurred by new materials, more refined techniques and fresh ideas.

Carrie Yamaoka has exhibited widely in the United States and in Europe including: the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, Artists Space in New York City, MassMOCA in Massachusetts; Torch in Amsterdam, Studio 1.1 in London, and Galerie Une in Switzerland.