Crys Yin
Nothing to Exclaim
January 7- February 19, 2022
Deanna Evans Projects is pleased to present, Nothing to Exclaim, a solo exhibition by Crys Yin. With a year spent gravitating towards the subdued and in search of stillness, Yin meditates on the importance of the quiet collective in this new body of work.
In the Untitleds, twenty wood panels commune together. While each painted vessel is unique in its appearance, the arrangement of the works form a shared story. Burning joss sticks as offerings, once a childhood ritual belonging to Yin, was revived during the pandemic after she experienced several passings. For many months, it existed as a parallel ritual with friends and neighbors in their own spaces. Pictures sent back and forth of burning incense and altars constructed publicly were evidence of a grief that found a way to be shared collectively, through any distance. Yin’s muted paintings recreate that same quiet connectedness, regardless of the chaos outside that insists on being heard. Viewers are invited to enter and leave the work without pronouncement, depositing to or taking away from the collection what they need.
In Offerings, three paintings are blanketed in white, symbolic of both death and rebirth. These works are notably in a set of three, the same number of joss sticks lit or bows humbly made at an ancestors’ altar. The ghostly paintings each indicate an absence, whether it be a corner no longer occupied or a piece of fruit left unconsumed. And while seemingly melancholic in tone, these works offer a fond remembrance of what once was.
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Crys Yin is an artist based in New York. Her paintings, drawings, and sculptures tell stories of cultural mis/connections and find contentment in the mundane. She has exhibited at FLAG Art Foundation, The Chinese American Museum, Adam Baumgold Gallery, Fisher Parrish, LVL3, amongst others. Yin has also participated in fellowships with A.I.R. (New York), ProjectArt (New York), Shandaken Paint School (New York), The Lighthouse Works (New York), ACRE (Wisconsin), Ox-Bow (Michigan) and The Lower East Side Printshop (New York). She is a 2021 Studio Immersion Fellow with Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York.
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