Description
Yeoh Choo Kuan lives and works in Kuala Lumpur. His work is an exploration of the possibilities through mark-marking. He has explored a variety of themes including domesticity, sexuality, the human body, as well as death and the subconscious. His early autobiographical works illustrate the purging of unrest and hidden emotions left by traumatic experiences through mark-making on painted imageries. His approach had since shifted toward gestural abstraction with highly textured strokes, which is referred to as his self-coined “Fleshing Abstraction” — a synthesis of disintegration set in contrast as the tension and forces are weighted on the oil surfaces.
Informed by distinctive visual languages accumulated over the course, he is currently drawing inspiration from nature to discover the potential of landscaping and pictorial means. His solo exhibitions include What Makes A Mountain (2023), Today's Special, Richard Koh Fine Art, Gillman Barracks, Singapore (2020), Streaming Mountain (2019) held at Richard Koh Fine Art, A Day And Forever, Art Basel Online Viewing Room, Richard Koh Fine Art, Hong Kong (2020). Group exhibitions include Art Basel Hong Kong 2023, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Hong Kong, China (with Richard Koh Fine Art), Gestures of Landscape, Richard Koh Fine Art, Gilman Barracks, Singapore (2022), In Our Own Frame: 15th Year Celebration, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur (2020), Malaysia, VOLTA 14, Basel, Switzerland, (2018), and Art Central 2018, Richard Koh Fine Art, Hong Kong (2018), The Unreal Deal - Six Decades of Malaysian Abstract Art, Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery (2017).