chris yee

STRΛNGE DEVICES

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I had the “Fuck you I am” exhibition and the “Jurassic Lounge” exhibition only days apart, so for those keeping track I decided to theme the works so they worked together collectively.

Jurassic Lounge

30th of October @The Australian Museum
All Paintings are acrylic on canvas

“Golden Girl”

“Tommyboy”

“RuffRyders”

“Fleshbone”

l sat a quick interview before the event which can be found here.

Fuck You I Am

All  artists were asked to paint over vintage materials to bring “new life” and reinterprut meanings behind them.

“Home Invasion”

“Lurkers Only”

“Turf War”

Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to the opening, but you can find coverage and media here.
The whole set up revamping the old espionage looked great! Props to Faz and the good people at kindof- gallery

FY – i am: Event One from The Stylemologyst on Vimeo.

VERSUS THE CITY – Artworks

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Why Kaiju? We both mutually thought it was something cool that hasn’t really been done in Sydney especially from a full illustrated standpoint. We both share common love and influence from that side of the East, so stepping out as a collaborative force we thought it would be the perfect fit.

From the onset while planning the gallery with Gerald, we knew we wanted to go big, loud and colourful. Gerald’s art before this point was all precise and detailed black and white ink work so it was a big jump out of his comfort zone to go into large scale canvas colour.
Check out his works over at his fb page.

Kaiju themselves aren’t really bad nor good. As opposed to Western monsters they are strictly born to fight and most of the time born to lose. They come in wacky shapes, sizes, colours from menacing to just plain goofy. The creative freedom is pretty much limitless.
With my Kaiju I wanted to draw influence from the “boss” monsters. The guys that would typically fight at the end of a long battle. I knew Gerald was going to infuse a more classic Kaiju look as well as act as an extension of his “Rhombians” so I wanted to go a bit left field by playing with pattern and other cultural influences.

‘VERSUS’
120 x 90cm
Mixed Media

’99 Chambers’
90 x 120cm
Mixed Media

‘BONE BO¥’
90 x 120cm
Mixed Media

‘Nigo Owes me a Hundred Favours’
90 x 120cm
Mixed Media

 

VERSUS THE CITY

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What I’ve been busy working on for the past few weeks…

“VERSUS THE CITY”
Chris Yee X Gerald Leung

Kaiju (怪獣, kaijū) is a Japanese word that means “strange beast,” but often translated in English as “monster”. Coming in all shapes and sizes, these creatures rise from the dark of the ocean and volcanic undergrounds of Earth to do battle, with the city as the ultimate battleground.

Paying homage to these bizarre beasts, Chris and Gerald venture through slipstreams of influence from old legends of the silverscreen, the dynamism of the manga panel and the wacky nature of the East to give birth to their creations.

The Tate Gallery
345 Glebe Pt Rd
Wednesday August 29
6pm

Be There!

All Grey Everything

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So along with the comic heres a preview of another personal project I’ve been working on, soon to be released in a printed greyscalyle zine. A large focus on Greyscale as the new theme of the zine but more on that later yo
four arms vs ϟϟϟϟϟϟ

This piece is kind of a b-side to the painting I did for Hyper Reality. It began as an initial idea I had when planning the first piece but ran out of time to paint as a second piece. I might revisit this with acrylics later, who doesn’t like hero/villain fights!?

Something I started ages ago. fashion/fantasy/girls/animals. Playing around with drawing textures and repeats, more to come.


Arty Thursdays

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Why are art openings always on Thursdays??

The 80s-90s Comic/Cartoon/Video Game themed gallery Hyper Reality Dimension XX went off without a hitch. Good vibes, great numbers, great art. Much thanks to Jono Verzosa for curating and organizing the whole event. It was great meeting all of the artists and hearing from people that they legitimately liked looking at all of the art.

Sydney’s a small place and it was great to finally put a physical face behind stuff i’d seen online. So please check out the works of talented dudes: Gerald Leung, Sam Hoh, Jin Hien Lau, BafCat, OX and Bryn Desmond-Jones to name a few.

Be sure to check out the gallery at aMBUSH before it ends, or the online catalogue when it comes out. Here are some blurry and overall poor photos I took from the night

Thanks to the usual scumbag crew for coming. Much like the Wu-Tang Clan except one of our names could actually be “Wu” or “Tang”.
Jinman is Raekwon.