Josh Faught "While the Light Lasts"
Lisa Cooley Fine Art
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The sculptures presented in "While the Light Lasts," a title borrowed from a 1924 Agatha Christie story, combine fibers, collage, sculpture, and painting. They depict a vibrant, interior, subjective life in conflict with banal, quotidian drudgery. Faught’s sculptural forms are expressive and raw. He has developed a material language of loosely crocheted rifts and ruptures: burrowing, cuff-like nooks; idiosyncratic pockets; webbed knots and perforated swatches. He combines these unique forms with woven afghans, which are then stretched across wooden supports and augmented with unusual materials such as garden trellises, toilet paper, brown sequins, nail polish or smaller sculptures cast in plaster or leather-scented wax. These saggy assemblages suggest a loose narrative about object and ornamentation, sexual difference, memory, desire, isolation, and spiritual loss, while drawing on the history of textiles, recent social and political history and the artist’s personal story.
[Image: Josh Faught "Untitled" (2009) leather-scented wax, cotton wick dimensions variable]
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from January 08, 2010 to February 14, 2010