Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Yu-Wen Yu

Stepping into the Helen Day Art Center gallery in which Yu-Wen Yu’s mixed-media works are displayed feels a little like wandering into a scientist’s lab — or a composer’s studio. In her show “Convergence,” the Boston-based artist uses various data — the migration patterns of birds, the ocean tides, astronomical figures — as well as imagery from nature, such as photographs of water or sky, to create rhythmic, seductive visual patterns. Some pieces look like sheet music, others like the charts and graphs of a dedicated scientist. Viewed together, they hint at a kind of universal connectedness, a method to the apparent madness of the natural world. Through April 15. Pictured: “Songbook 3.”