i primarily made this work as a way to honor the labor of my grandfather and my great grandfather, wanted their work to be seen and known.
This piece is made of photo transfers of the lattice brick wall they built back in the late 1940s. They both worked at the local brickyard in Malvern, Arkansas. The thing that hits me the most, is that I don’t know much about them, but I feel my life, as it is now, is in large part due to their labor. The wall is their strength calcified into form.
I’ve made work about this house in the past and it’s many lives – the site of family reunions, conflicts, and resolutions. The house is still standing, but my family recently decided to let it go.
Caption:
“callus #1”, 2023 Photo transfer on canvas, muslin, and oil pastel 36 x 196 inches (91.44 x 497.84 cm)
Image courtesy of Morán Morán
this is a “portrait” of my late grandma. she loved purple, pearls and her nick name was Big Shot. she was the nucleus of our family.
i wanted to make a work that challenged my assumptions of her. Thinking of her not only as a matriarchal figure, but also as someone who had desires and experiences that i’ll never know
on a side note i love how my sister said at the opening that if my grandma saw it she’d be like “that don’t look nothin like me!”
“Granny (Big Shot, Jessie)”, 2023 Burlap, dyed fabric, dyed wax, faux pearl, plaster, resin, and wire 69 1/2 × 49 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (176.53 × 125.10 × 15.88 cm) Courtesy of Morán Morán
I wanna give a massive thank you to everyone who came out for the opening of Private Property
particularly being able to share this moment with the support of my family has left me feelin so incredibly full
Thank you to @moranmorangallery for giving me the opportunity to share this work
And a huge shout out to my friends and badass designers @vihanga.co for styling me - y’all know how to make a gurl feel so damn good
Private Property will be open till August 25th - see link in bio for gallery info
excited to announce im opening my first solo in LA titled “Private Property” @moranmorangallery !
OPENING
SATURDAY JULY 29, 6–8 PM
Moràn Moràn
641 N WESTERN AVE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90004
For full press release see link in bio
Caption: “Granny (Big Shot, Jessie)”, detail
48 x 66 x 8 inches
Burlap, dyed fabric, dyed wax faux pearl, plaster, resin, and wire
2023
ill be forcing myself out of my studio hole to celebrate the opening of “No title”
tomorrow night @chapterny
come thru ! ✨
info below:
“No title”
cameron clayborn - Adam Gordon - Sylvie Hayes-Wallace - Lee Lozano - Sam Moyer - Dala Nasser - Ang Ziqi Zhang June 23 – August 4, 2023
Opening Reception: June 23,
6–8pm
60 Walker Street, New York, NY
Chapter NY is pleased to present a group exhibition including drawings by Lee Lozano and multimedia works by contemporary artists cameron clayborn, Adam Gordon, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Sam Moyer, Dala Nasser, and Ang Ziqi Zhang. The exhibition will consider Lozano’s early practice—in particular, her drive to seek and define form—as a jumping off point and inspiration to the living artists in the exhibition. Two drawings from her early tool series center functional implements as bodily and erotically charged subjects. With great emphasis on process, each artist in the exhibition explores the capacity and potential of the creative act. They work within self-assigned rules and parameters to guide their artmaking and recontextualize objects and structures from their physical environments.
Caption:
“a short list of grievances”, 2022 Dyed muslin, latex, metal wire and pillows 148 x 35 x 25.5 inches
thank you to everyone who came out to see Meet Me Upstairs!!
🙏🏾🤎
findin myself in a deep recovery moment rn - feelin very full
thank you @hyereemro , Claire Ritchie and Oscar Chavez for goin on that chaotic ride with me !!!
Thank you to the @simonesubalgallery team for being the back bone xoxo
you can find full documentation on my website
coming soon!! ✨
It’s with immense gratitude and joy to announce that my work will now be in the permanent collections of LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Studio Museum in Harlem !!
😭🙏🏾🤎
Truly overwhelmed and feel it’s not only my work going into these collections but also wanna dedicate this moment to my momma who did everything she could to put me through school
Also want to give a huge thank you @simonesubalgallery - you’re an incredible team making dreams come true
Captions:
1. homegrown #3, 2021. Hair beads, insulation, paper, stucco ceiling paint, and wire rope. 78 × 28 × 5 inches
Image courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York. Photo: Studio Shapiro
2. roompiercer (with tools), 2021. Aluminum and steel. 5 × 1 ½ × 4 ¾ inches.
Image courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni
3. fractal #2, 2021. Colored pencil, oil pastel, and watercolor on paper. 12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm).
Image courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York.
@lacma@studiomuseum
Gift of Burton Aaron, Detroit, MI.
excited to announce ill be doin my first performance in ny titled “Meet Me Upstairs” , APRIL 6 & 7 @simonesubalgallery !
see details below :
Headlamps – red, yellow, and blue – make visible the way our thoughts overlap. Then we peel, rip and recalibrate to adjust the grid. With each breath our collective stomachs will rise and fall, untying knots of anxiety and leaving space for new memories.
Performed in the round, Meet Me Upstairs is a self described “sonic psychodrama” that attempts to transform the gallery into a location where lofty, incoherent thoughts can be distilled into a logical structure. The performance will feature movement and props by cameron clayborn, Oscar Chavez, and @hyereemro , and will be accompanied by harp improvisations as well as original music co-written by cameron clayborn and harpist Claire Ritchie
showin some new sculptures and drawings at @felixartfair with @moranmorangallery
if you happen to be in LA please do check it out :)
caption: roompiercer (with a mended form) #1, 2023
Bronze and dyed muslin
8.5 x 2.75 x 4.5 inches
so happy to announce the first catalogue of my work thus far ✨
created as part of the exhibition “nothing left to be” open thru JAN 22 @hamburger_bahnhof
Enclosed, in addition to images of works, is an essay titled “Contradictory Objects” by Sven Beckstette @s.beckstette
an absolutely incredible curator, writer and human who truly guided me through the process of the exhibition
And a beyond moving writing titled “Overtures” by poet, writer, artist and long friend Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro @_mrdzc_
thank you both immensely for your words and for all those who helped in producing the catalogue /exhibition 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
edited by Sven Beckstette @s.beckstette
graphic design by
Kraft plus Weichmann
and
published by Wienand Verlag @wienand_verlag
texts in both German & English !
If you’d like a copy, you can find the catalogue on the Hamburger Bahnhof web store
these tools are not for you, they are for us., 2022
Bronze and satin
39 x 35 x 2.75 inches
last pic is a sticky note my partner wrote to me:
“Bronzes on quilt will be the star of the show. these pieces have been on a journey since conception. Journeying in the glove box across the u.s. as clay. Then across the ocean as realized forms”
