Law Cheuk Yui

Revealing his versatility, earlier in Law Cheuk Yui 's career he focused on his photorealistic paintings, which made paintings look more like a photographs. His most recent paintings in the "Monochrome Bad Paintings" series, is intended to be more on the abstract and expressive side, and sometimes, even a little bit of action, similar to the expressionist movement painter, Jackson Pollack in which the image or realistic result was not the first priority, but instead, using painting as a gesture of "Making a Painting," resulting in the images being just a side effect. In his current series, Law Cheuk Yui also channels the idea of photo-paintings, which were created by Gerhard Richter and shown in 1963 at his first solo show, held at the M belhaus Berges. German painter Gerhard Richter introduced his photo-painting style, in which he employed his own or found photographs of landscapes, portraits, and still lifes as a base for his paintings. The artist blurred the depicted subjects or objects, deviating from traditional figurative painting in order to distinguish paintings from photography. Law Cheuk Yui has also incorporated into his own style, the more freestyle brush works of French artist Francis Picabia, who never adhered to one art movement for long, Picabia ping-ponged between Impressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism, before finally eschewing the art world establishment altogether in the 1920s. It was then, beginning with his "Monster" series, that his painting veered into the realm of the intentional, "bad painted artworks" which features bizarre, hallucinogenic works; painted with clumsy brushstrokes and garish colors that belie the artist's true skill.The majority of Law Cheuk Yui's "Monochrome Bad Paintings Series" are painted in monochrome, with transparent painting techniques on top of a prepared toned canvas, in which there were minimal to no colour mixing. By avoiding the mixing of different colour paint throughout the entire painting process, with minimal cover up or retouching during the painting process, helps to avoid losing the "transparency" of the painting. Each of his works were completed within couple of hours; otherwise, they were destroyed .Law considers this series more of an mixture of gestures, comprised of "Making a painting," which is all about the relationship between the paint, canvas and the artist, as well as a medium for social commentary; "Pop Art and History Painting" which serves the purpose of exploring subject matters pertaining to humanity, such as: death, sex, fame and popular cultures; by painting famous images, creating dialogue between the artist and the Pop Culture History. Law also selected famous photographs that represents fame and fortune in Pop Culture. These include using famous movie stills of Monroe, Hepburn, Elvis, and Bruce Lee in the art world. Further including; Gagosian's Logo; Larry Gagosian's portraits; and Mona Lisa; and images referencing Andy Warhol; painting the same images that Andy Warhol had chosen to paint in the past; images referencing Law Cheuk Yui's own environment growing up, including: images of Deng Xiao Ping, Queen of England, Mao's portrait on Renminbi, and Portrait of Bruce mixed with the American Flag.Although he has incorporated all of the styles and artwork he's inspired by, Law Cheuk Yui has his own style and is evolving as an artist himself. His vision and passion can be witnessed through his paintings; he is honored to be granted the opportunity to share his work with the world in his new series, "Monochrome Bad Paintings Series."