Justen Ladda "7 Mirrors and a Nose"

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Justen Ladda has been an iconic figure on the New York art scene since the late 1970’s and has developed several distinct bodies of work over the last three decades. He first exhibited his work – a painted installation titled ‘square times’ at the seminal Times Square Show in June 1980, and in 1981 painted ‘THE THING’ and ‘book burning’ in the underground auditorium of the abandoned PS37 in the South Bronx. In 1986,his work ‘art, fashion and religion’ was featured in The Museum of Modern Art’s project room. Since then Ladda has exhibited in prominent group exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally. Among the concerns in his work are the idea of illusion, transformation, integration, and ‘look’.

Ladda's show will also include a sculpture titled, “white nose, 2008” from a series of sculptures of noses based on that of the opera singer Maria Callas which evolved out of an earlier body of work of women’s crystal dresses and corsets. The noses are constructed in layers of different fabrics and batting over stainless steel wire frames and are covered in fashion fabrics that have been draped and sewn to fit the noses like gloves. The ‘white nose’ is finished not in fabric but in polyester batting.

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Schedule

from November 19, 2010 to December 19, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-11-19 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Justen Ladda

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