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... Charles Yuen, whose modest and affecting pictures make hay of the ongoing blur between abstraction and representation with simple brushstrokes and evocative forms.

–Linda Yablonsky, Time Out New York 5/6/2004

With Yuen there is a feel that getting there took longer than usual, that under the elegant and facile surface displaying eerie creatures and rude drawing, a good deal of hard work, rework, new directions discarded, occurred.

–J. Boyer Bell, Review Art, 9/15/1996

As much as Yuen's funny pictorial symbolisms defy a rational reading, they invite our complicity in their on-canvas revolt against conventions.

–Gerrit Henry, Art in America, 10/1998

The process in which he throws down a gauntlet of facades in order to unmask them is what drives his imagery...

–Rachel Youens, OffOffOff.com,2004