Nature is an artist’s helpmate and muse in “Loud Magic”
September 11, 2019
AJC
By Felicia Feaster
In her solo exhibition “Loud Magic,” at Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta-based artist Sonya Yong James uses nature as a kind of collaborator, the source of her inspiration and font of her materials.
Sonya Yong James: LOUD MAGIC
Art Papers
October 2, 2019
By EC Flamming
Sonya Yong James’ exhibition LOUD MAGIC [September 6 – October 19, 2019] at Whitespace in Atlanta is a slow-simmering study of potential energy. The collection acts like a spell—works in it aren’t necessarily static. They’re constructed to activate change, and the material decisions act as catalysts to push the potential to the kinetic.
Distaff, Spindle: Sonya Yong James at Whitespace, Atlanta
Burnaway.org
October 15, 2019
By Claire E. Dempster
Late last winter, I spent my Tuesday evenings perched at the edge of an uncomfortable bench, learning to weave. I watched my patterns emerge with the unbridled optimism of a delighted novice after each wobbly pass of the shuttle. Made of cheap beginner’s wool, my tea towels, table runners, and scarves packed down into simple cartographies of weft and warp.