Art and Cake review of Obliterate
Submitted by andreyi on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 00:00https://artandcakela.com/2018/10/20/andre-yi-at-open-mind-art-space/
Andre Yi “Obliterate”
Open Mind Art Space
Through October 26, 2018
by Jody Zellen
Before turning to sculpture, Andre Yi created delicate paintings and drawings. His early works were detailed renderings of natural and architectural elements centered in large expanses of soft color, often juxtaposed with swirling ribbon shaped white lines that suggested flowing rivers. In later paintings such as Untitled (Ginko Tree), 2008 the green tree leaves are depicted as hard edged rectangles. Imagining a progression, it is possible to see the trajectory from Yi’s paintings which were becoming more abstracted while remaining two-dimensional, to his current constructions. It is as if the trees and the background disappeared leaving just the geometric shapes.