Yocum is brilliant . He articulates the unexplainable through electric lines and vague images, without clarifying the details. With bold colors and poignant images, he would rather give the viewer elements with which to create their own thoughts and feelings rather than have them extrapolate his personal message or agenda.
"As though he were tearing pages from a diary written in a foreign language, he keeps his secrets while unabashedly exposing the words in the form of conflicting images and sharp edges." Studying his work is like looking out over a city from a rooftop, trying to take in each and every vignette and combine them into one story. He lays out memories, emotions and pieces of everyday life with unruly brush strokes - more like acollection of free associations than an intentionally polished message. His painting mimics his attitude;raw, real and unrefined.
Luke Yocum [The Amish Neo] captures the essence of New York by inhaling the fast pace of its citizens and visitors, the propaganda scattered from streets to rooftops, and the din of every day life happening each moment. He exhales with his brushes while transforming the profane into the beautiful by unapologetically showing the truth for what it is. Yocum is no ordinary artist splashing color across a canvass. He paints his perspective of reality by removing the sugarcoat we are so accustomed to digesting. Yocum is a breath of fresh air. He is an advocate for reality in the midst of the Play Station generation. He is an artist. He is a voice. He is a revolution.
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if you want you can. Please do the photo shoot in New York. September 11 so that it does not remain just a memory. We all believe in peace. Thanks from Italy.
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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