John Pai

John is one of many important creatives that John Yau helps us rediscover in Please Wait By the Coatroom. Spanning from the 1960s through the present, Pai’s active artistic practice could be viewed as a continuing process of evolution whereby the artist connects one fundamental unit to another, and another, facilitating an incremental ritual of accretion where a new whole emerges, one that has been informed by the artist’s exploration of his subconscious, memories, and myriad interdisciplinary interests traversing music, science, Eastern philosophy, and literature.

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Gabriel Mills

Saw below during a recent trip to the High Museum in Atlanta. Gabriel is interested in abstraction as a mode of painting that offers an open-ended forum for posing questions about the nature of his everyday experience as a Black artist. For Mills, abstraction represents a rebellious way of approaching marginalized and countercultural political ideologies through unencumbered expressivity.

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Udomsak Krisanamis

Udomsak’s practice has long been characterised by his specific use of collage, creating obsessive pattern made from newspaper, noodles, cellophane and paint. Over the past two decades Krisanamis’ work has maintained a distinct formal and conceptual clarity, offering a unique experimentation with the well-worn territories of grid.
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