Recurring shapes, with variations: the art of Yong Sin
Quiet noise Artist Yong Sin and the nuances of imperfection by Bondo Wyszpolski Shortly after immigrating with her family to the United States from Korea, Yong Sin signed up for several courses in philosophy at a community college and flunked all of them. Even though she’d been reading Sartre, Cocteau, Dostoevsky, Beckett and others, Sin hadn’t yet learned English. So she veered back towards art, which she’d always done and has done ever since. Sin currently has a studio on Sixth Street in San Pedro and an exhibition of her work called “Sotto Voce: Lowering the Volume” is at Gallery 478. With Sin’s input, of course, the art was selected by artist and educator Ron Linden. In Linden’s eyes, Sin is the real deal. “Yong’s craftsmanship is obvious and undeniable,” he says, “and it’s her ability to subvert the chosen grid organization by various means that I find very refreshing… And smart. And humorous. She seems to celebrate the accident, the ‘mistake,’ in the form of paint bleeds, erasures, and mis-alignments with a tongue-in-cheek sincerity. “A few years ago, in 2018 or ‘19, she produced horizontal stripe paintings that from five feet away looked standard and conventional, but…
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