the artist's imagery is highly communicative, especially in its dark but abiding sense of humor–for which, no doubt, we have the tradition of the court jester to thank.

- Gerrit Henry, Art in America

Yuen has a masterful facility with his paint handling and never overworks the pigment. Like a great sumi ink calligrapher, he allows spontaneous incidents of brushstroke or paint and solvent to play evocative parts in creating his tableaus.

-James Kalm, The Brooklyn Rail

... 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

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

The point of these paintings is that they exist within the realm of stillness. Yuen’s paintings work on us like a silent ululation, a harmony of opposites, a pulsation of a hidden, yet informed rhythmic structure.

-Robert C. Morgan

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

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