Lauren Clay "Hootenanny"
Larissa Goldston Gallery
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Departing from her previous interest in modernist and urban utopias, "Hootenanny" explores the amalgamated nature of contemporary cultural and spiritual identity. These sculptures utilize formal devices and tropes of Modernist, Eastern, and metaphysical dialogues with infinity, drawing on physical and ephemeral structures built to frame the vastness of the universe. Constructed primarily from papier-mâché and painted paper, the pieces themselves are as ephemeral and temporal as the subjects they address.
The exhibition consists of freestanding, leaning, and wall-mounted sculptures that reference a plethora of cultural conceptions of the infinite. While some works explore the tradition of monochrome painting as portals to the void, others refer to Asian and religious motifs relating to the self-generating cosmos—rocks, octagons, and the repetitive patterns of latticework. Reminiscent of Clay’s previous interest in fecundity, the surfaces of many of the works display bulging topographies, which seem to drip from their forms.
[Image: Lauren Clay "One way ticket into the nirvana thickets (tunnel funnel cornucopia)" (2009)]
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from October 29, 2009 to December 19, 2009