Room Upgrade for Pacific Northwest Afternoon, 2012, cedar shingles, fluorescent lamps, aluminum, 183 x 183 x 61 cm

Wood is Resilient in Earthquakes, 2012, cedar, fluorescent lamps, aluminum, glass laminate, 70 x 248 x 20 cm

Usonian Cave, 2012

turn on your electric, 2011, steel, glass laminate, plywood, surfboard, 152 x 305 x 61 cm

Room upgrade for Pacific Northwest afternoon

Robert Youds

March 9 to April 15, 2012

“We are ourselves and our circumstances. My work employs an urban vernacular of surface, colour, light and space, to examine human existence.”

Trained as a painter, Robert Youds has expanded his engagement with the medium over the past two decades to include the materiality of the designed environment, including aluminum, Plexiglas, LED and fluorescent lights and digital signs. The BC-based artist’s use of artificial light has given rise to seductive and meditative explorations of perception that he refers to as “structures” and “light paintings” while critic Barry Schwabsky has described them as “light pictorialized.”