Dream Painting C5, 2021

Estimated Value: $5500 - $5800 Kyle Yip's visual art emerges from the depths of his vivid dreams, mediating an intricate dialogue that transcends binary language. Inspired by Jungian dream theory and Mandukya Upanishad scriptures, his transdisc...

Estimated Value: $5500 - $5800 Kyle Yip's visual art emerges from the depths of his vivid dreams, mediating an intricate dialogue that transcends binary language. Inspired by Jungian dream theory and Mandukya Upanishad scriptures, his transdisciplinary approach effectively merges Gestalt dream interpretation with art analysis. Yip coterminously reverse engineers these successive images that once appeared immaterial into tactile, obdurate objects that oscillate between abstraction and representation. Drawing from the colour field of pop physics, these 'Dream Artifacts' embody the ethereal and corporeal, bridging the physiological fact of the dream with the fact of the surface. These primordial images navigate the metaphysical ambiguity of personal and collective identity through Eastern and Western philosophies. The resulting serialized paintings are simultaneously abstract and representational in mode, commercial and personal in facture. Yip's avant-gardest aesthetic elucidates the unconscious, inviting viewers to meditate on his art to decipher its rich visual code and agency.