Arts Announcements: New Yong Sin Exhibition at TransVagrant + GALLERY 478 and Lend Your Voice to Support the Arts and Cultural District

Length to Cut, acrylic on paper, over panel, Yong Sin 2021

TransVagrant + GALLERY 478

YONG SIN

Sotto Voce: Lowering the Volume

TransVagrant and Gallery 478 will present Sotto Voce: Lowering the Volume, recent works by Yong Sin. The exhibition will open First Thursday, May 5, with an artist’s reception, May 7.

Working primarily from the organizational grid and employing a geometric austerity and deceptive plainness reminiscent of Max Cole and Agnes Martin, 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.

The ordered linear grid format is a compositional device to experiment with group structures and the dynamics of various configurations. There is persistent interplay within each grid that amplifies within a group setting. I create nuances to challenge the ideas of identity, and I create just enough expressive variation to energize the recurring shapes. — Yong Sin

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.

Yong Sin has been collected and exhibited widely here and abroad. The exhibition runs through June 27. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment. 

Time: 4 to 7 p.m. May 7

Cost: Free

Details: 310-732-2150 or 310-600-4873

Venue: TransVagrant and Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro

Help the Artists and Arts in San Pedro

Angels Gate Cultural Center and the San Pedro Arts and Cultural District is calling on artists and art lovers to lend their voice in support of the state allocating $30 million to the California Cultural District program. This allocation will fund the existing district and the expansion of the California Cultural District program, which would have a transformative impact on arts districts across the state if passed. 

This $30 million budget allocation would go toward funding collaborations between businesses and cultural organizations as they improve the neighborhoods they serve. Angels Gate Cultural Center is one of the many cultural assets in this district. 

Details: Click here to send a prewritten message of support to your state elected officials: www.tinyurl.com/arts-san-pedro