Yo Fukui's future is a very strange sort of dystopia. It's impossible to know, with any degree of certainty, who the inhabitants are and what exactly it is they are doing. Some are biomorphic, to a degree - while others seem to have just emerged from a sludge pond of the future. Wrapped in a strange, technicolor dreamcoat, this future isn't particularly friendly - and yet its inhabitants aren’t exactly menacing either, loom as they might with uncertain purpose.

Constructed primarily out of hardened paper pulp and covered with thousands of rectangular felt scales, they evoke primitive digital pixelation as much as they do geometries of a woven quilt. Metal girders, rolls of toilet paper, and numerous other pre-fab elements have a significant voice, as well, complicating any easy ideas re: meaning or medium. And while it's certainly possible to think of Fukui’s work in terms of sculptural or art-historical precedents, it's the persistent strangeness of this world that announces itself most clearly and insistently. 

Yo Fukui graduated with an MFA from UNLV in 2008. This is his first show with the gallery.

"Future Imperfect" opens on Saturday, July 11th, with a reception from 6 - 10 PM. This will coincide with the greater Chinatown Art Evening. The show runs through August 15th.