ROMON KIMIN YANG – SELECTED WORK

Romon Kimin Yang aka Rostarr, who was born in Korea but has lived in New York since 1989, He has been a key figure in the city’s underground art scene and has exhibited throughout the United States, Asia and Europe.

His free-formed work, born from an intuitive process, which comes across as a universe of abstract and geometrical shapes from which symbolic and iconographic elements emerge in elegant and incisive gestural strokes. His work is defined by an expression he calls “Graphysics”, meaning the fusion of graphic arts and the physical laws governing the movement of energy.

Through the balance of dynamism & geometric order characteristic of his work, the artist explores the arbitrariness and relationship between significance and signifier with a sensibility that stems from his interest in iconography & calligraphy.

By using various materials, Rostarr is able to enhance the expressive capacity of surfaces. His work extends into the mediums of painting, digital media, sculpture, textile and public art projects with the ‘Barnstormers’ collective, a core member since 1999.