Selected Egg Tempera on Wood Panel 1989

                    Bird - 10 x 8 in.
              Source - 13.5 x 11.5 in.
                  Hummer - 10 x 8 in.
                  Liar - 13.5 x 11.5 in.
        Untitled (still life) - 30 x 23.5 in.
              Vase and Red - 30 x 23 in.
                Compass - 30 x 24 in. ​
        Untitled (lozenge) -  28 x 22.5 in.
                Appearance - 30 x 23 in.
            Two Stories - 31.25 x 24 in.
                   Corral - 30 x 24 in.
                Also Birds - 31.5 x 24 in.
"Egg tempera is an unlikely player in these disciplined visual games.  Sticky, fast-drying, of variant consistency and generally uncooperative, its watery personality threatens irreverent dribbles and glitches at every move of the brush.  Young placates the paint by letting it have its little tantrums within the strict architectural confines of his compositions.  Viewers are never quite sure whether the rough spots are ordained or deplored.  Under the artist’s hand, even sins of the wayward appear to conform to a grand design.

When coupled with the labored balance of his pictorial order, the holy patina of Young’s medium makes the material relationship between object and viewer seem almost mystical:  we stare at the pictures and think we’d like to believe."  - Mitchell Stevens, New Art Examiner, January 1991.