TransVagrant @ Gallery 478

Sotto Voce: Lowering the Volume

Working primarily from the organizational grid and employing a geometric austerity and deceptive plainness, Yong Sin works in collage, painting and mixed media. The meditative repetitiveness of the grid is often interrupted by quiet noise, but noise nonetheless, as the matrix flickers with near-kinetic energy.

Sin’s handmade patterned artworks recall hundreds of years of tradition in textile design and the therapeutic traditions of repetition, meditation and mantra. For hundreds of years, the enduring practice of replication has been pursued to aid in the search for enlightenment. The exhibition runs through June 27.