Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea (2011)

Yahon Chang’s Sensibility — Face to Face exhibition bore witness to Chang’s increasing inventiveness during the period 2003 to 2010 and provided a sense of his direction to come. As a performance, Chang rendered large-scale Animal series works in the rapid xieyi, or “writing the idea,” painting mode in ink on paper, melding Western expressionism with the dynamic, performative aspect of traditional Chinese brush and ink painting. Animal and Sentient Beings series works included in the exhibition captured their subjects with similarly abbreviated brushwork and, bearing witness to Chang’s innovative experimentation, were painted with different combinations of ink, acrylic, and oil on canvas using a wide variety of brushes.
— Britta Erickson