For Seattle-based artist Ko Kirk Yamahira, the finished painting is a beginning rather than an end. Painstakingly removing individual threads from the weave of the canvas, he deconstructs his paintings, turning surface into form. He often disrupts the geometry of the support as well, cutting out sections of the wooden stretcher bars to create detached segments bound by loose thread. These remain unfixed and without prescribed orientation, free to be reconfigured over time. Each individual (untitled) work, in turn, functions as a facet of a single project that can never be finished, part of what Yamahira sees as a continuous, daily process of becoming through undoing. This exhibition, Yamahira’s first solo museum presentation, samples the artist`s recent output—including several pieces made for the occasion—to offer a meditation on identity, duality, and the relativity of perception. Several works in the exhibition are obverse pairs, such as two pieces with the same image
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