Spectral Resonance
Robin Kang, Lydia Kern & Sophia Sobers
curated by Natale Adgnot
April 10 - May 3, 2026
Opening reception: Friday, April 10, 5-8pm
Maiden Lane Gallery
51 Maiden Ln, Kingston NY
Spectral Resonance brings together the works of Robin Kang, Lydia Kern, and Sophia Sobers to examine the vibrating thresholds where organic systems meet technological architecture. With ghostly remnants of man-made technologies from medical imaging to found hardware, these artists explore how the unseen intelligence of the natural world is recorded, translated, and rematerialized through human systems.
The artworks in this exhibition act as translucent membranes, revealing the "bones" of their subjects through materials defined by their transparency. Sophia Sobers presents wall-hung stained glass sculptures that recast traditional craft through an industrial lens. Anchored by T-slot framing, climbing rope, and found hardware, these works integrate granulated field recordings that occupy the space between environment and machine, creating a site-responsive, working ecology. Lydia Kern utilizes the clinical, ghostly clarity of medical negatives and the skeletal remains of disassembled musical instruments, sewing together disparate materials to create wayfinders for ineffable, silent experiences. Robin Kang bridges ancestral weaving traditions with contemporary computation, using the Jacquard loom to manifest the unseen vibrational intelligence of botanical research into textiles that mimic the complex logic of motherboard circuitry.
Throughout the gallery, sound—both literal and implied—serves as the primary connective tissue. Whether through Sobers’ embedded field recordings, the resonant silence of Kern’s piano hammers and bells, or the ritualistic mantras woven into Kang’s iridescent yarns, the artists suggest that all systems possess a frequency. Spectral Resonance invites the viewer to look through the surface of the "natural" world, utilizing the transparency of stained glass and photographic negatives to find the persistent, encoded pulse that hums beneath the skin of the technological landscape.
Robin Kang is a Brooklyn-based artist, educator, and student of ancient mystical lineages. Her work reinterprets the tradition of weaving within a contemporary technological context. Utilizing a digitally operated Jacquard hand loom, the contemporary version of the first binary operated machine and argued precursor to the invention of the computer, she hand weaves tapestries that combine mythic symbolism, computer related imagery, and digital mark making. The juxtaposition of textiles with electronics opens conversations of reconciling old traditions with new possibilities, as well as the relationship between textiles, symbols, language, memory and spirituality. Kang has practiced the art of weaving for over 10 years, teaching courses in fiber arts, fabric dyeing, and digital weaving. Kang holds a MFA from SAIC and is a recipient of the 2017 NYFA Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture. Kang (Tonalmētzli) is also a multimedia shamanic sound healing artist dedicated to helping individuals, communities, and corporate clients achieve well-being through sound, breath, and energy work.
Lydia Kern reclaims natural and mundane found materials to create wayfinders for ineffable experiences. Devoted to each object, she creates metaphoric relationships between disparate materials, carefully sewing, wrapping, and sealing everything together into a new meaning. Her sculptures are narrative structures in which emotion, symbology, mysticism, tragedy, and transcendence echo. Lydia has been an artist-in-residence at the Corporation of Yaddo, Champlain College, Vermont Studio Center, the Lab Program in Mexico City, and AS220. Originally from Massachusetts and Burlington, Vermont, she lives and works in Queens, New York.
Sophia Sobers is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in installations and site specific work. She is interested in investigating the boundaries between science, technology, nature and the spiritual and her work ranges from installation and sculpture to drawing, photography, and digital objects. Sobers holds an MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BS in Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She has exhibited her work nationally, performing at the Rubin Museum and Knockdown Center, and exhibiting at places such as the New Bedford Art Museum (New Bedford, MA), and Westmoreland Museum of American Art (Greensburgh, PA). She has been an artist-in-residence at I-Park, KinoSaito, Cooper Union, and VCCA and her work has been written about in SciArt Center, E-Squared Magazine, Blouin Artinfo, and the Creators Project.
Natale Adgnot is an artist and curator based in New Paltz and Brooklyn, New York. Adgnot is the founder/director of N/A Project Space and a co-director of Underdonk.