Sarah Bowen Gallery presents a solo show of sculptural installations and conceptual work entitled "Speak Clearly So We Can Understand" by Yumi Janairo Roth. Roth fastidiously transforms mundane objects, destabilizing our perceptions of both the new surfaces and the original forms. The reinventions are as humorous as they are unsettling; Roth's works examine the language of design and function, and jocularly elicit new assumptions about the symbols and framework of culture and society.

Roth's sculpture is highly ordered; the subtle, rather than haphazard shifts in her hybrid objects reflect for the artist a sociological investigation of how we encounter and process the implications of material culture. Though she works with every day objects, i.e. hand towels, shipping pallets, and traffic barriers, Roth views all of her forms as points of departure rather than end products. By examining the functional, decorative, design aspects of her objects, she reveals their possibilities as tools of information and/or propaganda.

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