Akin Member Highlight - Kyle Yip’s RENAISSANCE SHOW at Collision Gallery
Long-time Akin Member Kyle Yip has a new and exciting solo exhibition that starts tomorrow! Be sure to swing by for the exhibition, drop in to enjoy the Opening Night celebration, or register for the Sound Bath Meditation to get the most out of this immersive show at Collision Gallery!
RENAISSANCE SHOW runs from April 18th to May 12th, 2023 at Collision Gallery (Commerce Court South, 30 Wellington St, Unit G114) with an Opening Reception on Saturday April 22 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. and a Sound Bath Meditation with The SoundBody Collective on Saturday April 29th, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Exhibition Hours:
Tuesday to Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
About RENAISSANCE SHOW
Kyle Yip's trans-disciplinary practice integrates eastern and western recovery-based approaches derived from gnosis and neuroscience. It plays with the new fixities of identity politics drawn from the colour-field of pop physics, combining euclidean and sacred geometry with vexillology. Some of these practices include art therapy, dreamwork, as well as meditation, reiki, and esoteric cosmological rituals that unsettle mainstream norms in contemporary art. His work addresses an urgent need in the art industry to merge explorations between personal development and avant-gardist aesthetics.
Yip achieved a significant breakthrough in 2017 when he discovered the unique ability to conceive and examine artworks that emerge during his dreams in vivid detail. He coterminously reverse-engineered these successive images that once appeared immaterial into tactile, obdurate objects.
The bands of simple Gestalt forms incorporate an aspect of both the ancient and modern world, and the overall vexillological format of the works also involves how visual attention is augmented through the practice of serial repetition. These works reveal how the unconscious has been branded by advertising formulas redolent of monotonous imagery of the commodity form. The subversive hybrid of these methods metaphorically maps a similarly disruptive kind of complex new identity.
This exhibition is generously supported by Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
About Kyle Yip:
Kyle Yip is a Toronto-based, JUNO Award-Nominated artist and audio engineer of mixed racial descent. He is internationally recognized for his highly coterminous creations of contemporary visual art, electronic music, films, and haute couture fashion originally envisioned during his dreams and pioneering the hypersurrealist movement. He was accepted into Sheridan College's world-renowned Baccalaureate of Animation Degree Program and continued his studies of sculpture at OCAD University.
His work has since been exhibited nationally and internationally, including JanKossen Contemporary in New York City, The Factory in London, Artscape Youngplace and Ignite Gallery in Toronto, Daegu Art Fair and the CICA Museum in South Korea.
Learn more about Kyle and his work at www.kyleyip.com
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About the RENAISSANCE SHOW Sound Bath Meditation
Saturday, April 29, 2023
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. at Collision Gallery
FEE: Pay what you can.
Take in the evocative artwork of trans-disciplinary artist Kyle Yip, and immerse yourself in a soothing sound bath by The SoundBody Collective with a Sound Bath for Unconscious Awakening, a one-of-a-kind live therapeutic soundscape experience created by The SoundBody Collective, a “sound bath band” comprised of three certified sound healing practitioners, Laura Notton, Nicole Manes and Rufus Glassco.
Join one of the city’s “most diverse soundscape groups” for a wholly unique sound bathing experience that will naturally relax your mind and body.
Taking place at an expansive art gallery space and inspired by the dream-informed work of Kyle Yip and his solo exhibition, RENAISSANCE SHOW, The SoundBody Collective will combine a multitude of instruments and voices, including quartz crystal singing bowls, Tibetan singing bowls, shruti box, didgeridoo, handpan, drum, tanpura, ocean drum and chimes to create a transcendental and healing sonic journey designed to help recipients create a bridge between their conscious and unconscious awareness.