Yeo Shih Yun is a brilliant artist who founded Instinc Art Space. She is doing more of her black ink works. And this time she is studying the brush marks made by robots. And like the other series, i.e Conversation with Trees, she collects the marks and makes SilkScreen prints with them. And she then uses a combination of SilkScreen printing, artist strokes and robot markings to create her work. She has a strong ability to work with monochromatic black and is able to understand and use the tonal variance to her advantage. That said, in some of her paintings in this series, she uses white (to assist in adding layers / depth by gradient to the works). She has the talent to produce perceptually pleasing art. In her older works she is able to use colours too, unlike some artists who are better at monochromatic works and don't understand colours well.
Yeo Shih Yun in black with Uptime (L) and Downtime (R)
Against the Spring (Titles of the art from the series were derived from the instruction manuals of the robots)
On the floor, one of the seven SilkScreens used for printing
Points for Collectors: Strong Buy. Yeo Shih Yun was initially a lone ranger in the art world and has since gone more mainstream. But still not a 'blue-eyed boy' of the Art Gods in Singapore, although she presented / was commissioned Conversation with trees at/for the Singapore Art Museum. Even Majorie Chu at Art Forum has represented her for her Learning from Trees Series.
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