Alrik Yuill · Desert Exposition: Verdure & Pink

“In February, my girlfriend started bringing flowers by the studio,” Yuill said, describing a mixed-media series on paper of flowers drawn in vases, a main component of the show. The flowers feel at once common and, in this place known more for its thorns than for its blooms, exotic. The works appear frequently, intermittently placed among Yuill’s larger, more abstract paintings.

Behind each bouquet, a line references both the horizontal of the countertop and divides oppositional, yet connected words: “Pink/Green.” “Meet/Meat.” “Some- thing/Nothing.” Yuill continues: “It’s as if these works have been a portrait of her, and then they became an extension of shared feeling as well as a personal journal or visual poem.”