New Works

“A view in Alan Young's work emerges in a way that no one else brings to the game.” — Ray Hughes.

The lines Young paints are not exactly contours, but rather dashed or inflated strokes of colour. His forms don't delimit coloured areas, but are themselves subject to coloristic tensions. Where an intense red meets a bright green, we get a purely differential horizon: not a boundary that encloses space, but an almost hallucinatory vibration. This might explain why many of his figures seem to look out at us with such consternation. Unable to fix their place in relation to others, their mask-like faces solicit us like a string of anxious questions: “am I a house?”, “is my boyfriend a chair?”…

— Chris Arneaud-Clarke, Extract from Essay 2018