About Yam Chew
Baltimore City
Yam Chew Oh is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and writer working in Baltimore and New York. His practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, assemblage, and photography. His works and writings have been exhibited and published in the United States and Asia, and featured in Commotion, Lumina Journal, Studio Visit, and Velocity. Yam Chew has moved across the world 15 times — his works often reflect the places he has been, both physically and… more
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The primacy of the line
I have been gripped by the primacy of the line, whether drawn, painted, sewn into, clamped on, or simply inherent in the substrate. They are imbued with meaning beyond its own materiality.
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Dumb compositions: elementalAcrylic, charcoal and graphite on panel | 12 panels, 12 x 12 inches each
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Us & RaiAcrylic and graphite on panel | 12 x 12 inches
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UsAcrylic, graphite and pastel on canvas | 36 x 24 inches
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HomeboundAcrylic, pen and rayon on linen | 5 x 5 inches
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EquanimityAcrylic and rayon on canvas | 36 x 36 inches
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ThrenodyAcrylic, graphite, flower, broomstick, copper and rayon on canvas | 60 x 48 inches
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PenitenceAcrylic, flower and rayon on canvas | 36 x 36 inches
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HopeAcrylic and rayon on canvas | 36 x 36 inches
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And that has made all the differenceAcrylic on panel | 12 x 9 inches
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We'll cross the bridge when we get thereAcrylic on board | 48 x 32 inches
Contiguity
This body of work was made in a state of psychological contiguity – the sequential occurrence or proximity of stimulus and response causing their association in the mind. Lines were frequently drawn to music in a free, continuous, unbroken fashion, with immediacy and speed. My mark-making has evolved into a process akin to Automatism.
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AnomieAcrylic and graphite on canvas | 60 x 48 inches
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Contiguity (Major)Acrylic on canvas | 60 x 60 inches
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ContiguityAcrylic, charcoal and graphite on canvas | 60 x 60 inches
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Contiguity (Minor)Acrylic and charcoal on canvas | 36 x 12 inches
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EnsconcedPen on paper | 5 x 7 inches
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RestivePen on paper | 7 x 5 inches
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Contiguity (Music)Charcoal on paper | 23 x 16.5 inches
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Contiguity (Laminous)Acrylic and pastel on canvas | 40 x 30 inches
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Contiguity (Cacophony)Acrylic, pastel and collage on canvas | 48 x 48 inches
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Contiguity (Venereal)Acrylic and pastel on panel | 36 x 36 inches