ARTICLES AND CRITICS

- Since the beginning of civilization, humans have built houses for shelter and protection. Unlike architecture that is both beautiful and useful, a house is usually not constructed for aesthetic purposes, but for the most basic human needs: safety, convenience, comfort and survival. Indeed, the house is so common that few people would associate it with art. Yu Chunming, however, has been making his art exclusively out of ordinary Chinese houses...Read More>

- Chunming Yu is an artist of two worlds. Trained in the traditional art forms of his native China, Yu has also been greatly influenced by traditions of the West, particularly those of European artists of the Baroque era. His paintings are a stylistic fusion of Eastern iconography, vantage points, and perspective coupled with a devotion to the subtleties and emotional power of light through a layering of chiaroscuro, the interplay of light and dark...Read More>

- Yu Chunming was known as a talented artist in the Bay Area even when I first met him two years ago. His paintings bear a unique style that on one hand embodies his profound training in both Chinese and Western painting and on the other hand conveys an integration of Western humanism and Chinese habitation culture. What impresses me most about this artist is his persistent pursuit of portraying folk houses...Read More>