{"id":474,"date":"2025-04-02T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albaescayo.com\/albaescayo\/?page_id=474"},"modified":"2025-04-02T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:47:13","slug":"collaborations-with-artists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/albaescayo.com\/albaescayo\/collaborations-with-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborations with artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Going Electric\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Alba Escayo and Shih Yun Yeo in collaboration<\/span><\/p>

By Joe Nolan<\/span><\/p>

The \u201cElectric Series\u201d isn’t a triptych presenting a single artwork in three sections, but when these three paintings hang together as an installation, the visual breadth of Alba Escayo and Shih Yun Yeo\u2019s collaboration is greater than the sum of its parts. These paintings interact with one another through mutual movement and common colors, creating a conversation about balance and harmony that mirrors the ongoing creative relationship between the artists themselves.<\/span><\/p>

Escayo is based in Spain and Yeo is based in Singapore. The pair first met in July 2008 at the LINDART International Fine Arts Colony in Slovenia. The creative duo clicked on their first collaboration at Lendava Castle, and the artists have continued to meet regularly in Spain and Singapore to co-create several projects. Escayo and Yeo have made a number of elegant works on paper since 2008, but their latest project reads like the most fully-realized version of their combined practice.<\/span><\/p>

The painters created the “Electric Series” in Yeo\u2019s studio after Covid 19 travel restrictions were lifted and Escayo was able to fly to Singapore in November, 2022. Escayo\u2019s multimedia paintings generally feature abstract landscapes rendered in candy-colored palettes. Yeo\u2019s works marry ancient Chinese calligraphy traditions to energized lines inspired by mid-century abstract expressionists. A collaboration between the two artists might not seem like an obvious match, but Escayo\u2019s soft forms and fields of colorful acrylics help to define these compositions where Yeo\u2019s rough and angular brushing highlights and energizes the underlying arrangement of hues and tones. The \u201cElectric Series\u201d explores a verdant palette from delicate yellows to cool blue greens to turquoise. They\u2019re all tied together with slashes and splashes of black ink. This limited range of colors puts the emphasis on these painters’ lines, forms and gestures, and the textures they bring to the surfaces of each work. There are lots of instances where the painters\u2019 contributions intersect, putting competing and colluding layers of paint and ink in play. The surfaces of each of these panels \u2013 and across the series as a whole \u2013 find these artists talking over one another and finishing each other\u2019s sentences in a lively, formalist conversation about color, movement, form and line.<\/span><\/p>

The title \u201cElectric Series\u201d speaks to the energetic movement in this succession of painted canvases, but it also calls to mind electrical series circuits in which a charge travels through various components in the order in which they\u2019re connected to one another. Each of the three stretched canvases is simply titled with a number \u2013 emphasizing that each piece occupies a specific place within the larger arrangement. With this in mind, it\u2019s compelling to consider the \u201cElectric Series\u201d paintings in order, looking at the paintings from left to right, from \u201cElectric Series #1\u201d to \u201cElectric Series #3\u201d. The first canvas is mostly white with a touch of green playing against the black ink. The second work also has green accents, but the overall painting is blue. The last painting in the series offers a more balanced mix of all the colors, reading like a synthesis of the first two works. \u201cElectric Series #3\u201d ends the sequence with a sense of balance and fulfillment \u2013 a resolution that\u2019s emblematic of the shared creative practice that\u2019s emerged from the disparate-seeming aesthetics of these two unique artists.<\/span><\/p>

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