Translucent green and blue sculptures hang from the ceiling, their reflections casting shadows in strange shapes. Along the walls, animations of Meeson Pae Yang’s two-dimensional work are projected. This is the installation half of Yang’s two-part exhibition, Permeate, at the Angels Gate Cultural Center. The other half consists of a more traditional setup, featuring Yang’s smaller sculptures hanging from the ceiling, alongside her abstract drawings and paintings.
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Most of these works are representations of nature; older works have names like Milky Seas, Galaxias, and Spores. The installation at Permeate, Yang explains, is her “most complex to date” and it will “grow and expand through the course of the exhibition.”
Permeate is essentially about influence: not the influence of other artists, but the influence of different mediums on each other, and the influence of light and shadow on different spaces. Yang also combines the technical with the the natural—projected images with natural shadows—to evoke ideas of ‘polarity.’ By combining seemingly opposing concepts and mediums, Yang explores ideological and physical permeations.Most of her work involves a cross-media investigation into questions of science and nature; she searches to create a visual synthesis of artifacts large and small. In Permeate, Yang lets the gallery space help reinterpret her pieces, just as her pieces reinterpret the space.
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