Lauren Pakradooni

Infinite Life featured artist: Kara Güt . Kara Güt is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary focus is image-based digital media. Her work investigates the new shape of human intimacy formed by internet lifestyle, constructed detachment from reality, and the power dynamics of the virtual. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. Solo shows include Presence at IRL Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Crystal Magic Weapon at Open Space, Baltimore, Maryland. Recent group shows include Daily Rush: Season 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and LAN Party at the 2020 Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. She is represented by Lava Project, and her videos are editioned by Daata Editions. In Spring 2023 Güt was named a Knight Arts + Tech Fellow. She currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. . @baby_peach123456789 @clare.gatto . Clare Gatto and Kara Güt collaborated with SHAG to design Infinite Life and digitize all featured artworks. Their collaborative artwork, “Abominations,” is featured in the virtual gallery’s “sculpture garden.” This digital asset is a continuation of the sculpture by the same name presented in their joint exhibition, Spawning Point, at SHAG in March 2021. SHAG extends many many thanks to Clare and Kara for their efforts in bringing this virtual gallery to life. 💗 . First image: “Abominations,” digital assets, 2021 . Second image: “Abominations” surrounding works by Lauren Pakradooni (left) and Elliot Avis (right). . Third image: “Abominations,” mixed media sculpture, 2021 . Fourth image: Spawning Point, works by Clare Gatto and Kara Güt at SHAG in March 2021 . Infinite Life is available 24/7 on our website. We recommend keeping via desktop computer for optimal experience.

Infinite Life featured artist: Clare Gatto . Clare Gatto earned a BFA from Ohio State State University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. A recipient of the 2020 Red Bull Micro Grant, they have attended artist residencies such as Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Seljavegur residency in Iceland, and Velferden Residency in Norway. Their artist book Good Side is in the Whitney Museum of Art Library Special Collections. Notable group shows include Daily Rush: Season 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Loading at the Mana Contemporary pavilion as part of the Wrong Digital Art Biennial, and The Lucent Image at Eastern Michigan University. Gatto is co-director of BULK SPACE alongside Jova Lynne, Sara Nishikawa, Meg Kelley and Jes Allie. BULK SPACE Artist Residency was a recipient of the Knights Arts Challenge Award in 2019. . Clare Gatto and Kara Güt collaborated with SHAG to design Infinite Life and digitize all featured artworks. Their collaborative artwork, “Abominations,” is featured in the virtual gallery’s “sculpture garden.” This digital asset is a continuation of the sculpture by the same name presented in their joint exhibition, Spawning Point, at SHAG in March 2021. SHAG extends many many thanks to Clare and Kara for their efforts in bringing this virtual gallery to life. 💗 . @clare.gatto @baby_peach123456789 . First image: “Abominations,” digital assets, 2021 . Second image: “Abominations” surrounding works by Lauren Pakradooni (left), Elliot Avis (center), and Gabriella Carboni (background center). . Third image: “Abominations,” mixed media sculpture, 2021 . Fourth image: Spawning Point, works by Clare Gatto and Kara Güt at SHAG in March 2021 . Infinite Life is available 24/7 on our website. We recommend keeping via desktop computer for optimal experience.

Infinite Life featured artist: Lauren Pakradooni . Lauren Pakradooni lives in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and BA from Hampshire College. Lauren Pakradooni is a multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking, sculpture, and sound. Her work reflects the tension between the natural and built world through glyphs in form, shape, and patterns. Pakradooni has performed and exhibited work with Peep Space, The Print Center, Planthouse Gallery, Space 1026, Skylab, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Epsilon Spires, Cheymore Gallery, the University of Texas at Austin, and Leisure Gallery. She has been awarded residencies by Women’s Studio Workshop, Wassaic Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. . @normalposition . First image: “Hinges On,” silk, upholstery foam, wire, cast plaster, and watercolor, 16 x 17 x 11, 2022 . Second image: “untitled- Springs Test Work in Progress,” CNC routed wood, 2022. Featured behind Pakradooni’s work: a 3D rendering of collaborative work by Clare Gatto and Kara Güt. . Infinite Life is available for viewing 24/7 on our website. We recommend keeping via desktop computer for optimal experience.

Here’s a quick tour of some of the works from the Lawn Monuments exhibition on August 19. Thank you to everyone who attended! Detail shots of individual works to come….

Well… that’s a wrap folks! Thank you so much to @iceboxprojectspace for making me one of the Invited curators 😁 and thanks to @normalposition and @helmet_lung for showing their fabulous work in Optical Bijou 👀 also thanks to @themoonbaby for helping me deinstall after a very long weekend camping in the woods and dancing our butts off 🥹 Until next time!!!

This unique, and special outdoor exhibition goes up for two days this weekend in Cragsmoor, NY. 🌸🌺🌼 show details and RSVP over at @lawn_monuments !!!

🦩Lauren Pakradooni🦩in Lawn Monuments, August 19 in Cragsmoor, NY! Lauren Pakradooni’s (b. 1984, Lima, PA) multidisciplinary practice is rooted in printmaking; she uses the medium’s processes for their iterative and reproductive qualities. Pakradooni expands her language of printmaking into sculpture and installation while retaining a relationship to the more traditional applications used in earlier work. Silkscreen and etching techniques apply ink to the surfaces of paper, wood, and acrylic used in sculpture. Impressions made onto silk through etching techniques are incorporated into her botanical and architectural forms. By installing near-body-sized work into line formations, she evokes a procession or the organization within a garden, drawing attention to the cross-pollination of image, form, and color between individual works. She utilizes materials for their qualities of transparency and obfuscation, referring to the experience of being both seen and unseen. Installation view “Tilt Towards Return” at Monaco Gallery, St. Louis, Mo 2022 Canopy Size (detail), 29.5 x 17 x 5.5” monotype on silk, wire, and wood, 2022 Installation view “Tilt Towards Return” at Monaco Gallery, St. Louis, Mo 2022 Spanning Sprig (detail), 92 x 130 x 29” monotype on silk, acrylic, and wood, 2022 Unfurling Backflip, 43 x 46 x 12” monotype on silk, wire, and wood, 2022 Unfurling Backflip (detail), 43 x 46 x 12” monotype on silk, wire, and wood, 2022 Lodge, 28 x 30 x 6”, monotype on silk and wood, 2022 Telephoning (wall), etching on silk, paper pulp from discarded prints, and wood, 30 x 25”, 2021

Optical Bijou is open all weekend @iceboxprojectspace as part of Invited: Take Care of the Square Footage 👁️ fri/sat 12-6 and Sunday 12-4 Curated by me and featuring work by Craig Jun Li @helmet_lung Lauren Pakradooni @normalposition and myself 🫶 Curator talk is this Sunday at 1pm 🚨 come out and hear about this amazing project organized by Icebox featuring so many DIY Philly curators and organizer!!! Xoxoxo

releasing today (!) "When I last saw Gallagher perform, it was when I had invited him to perform on a stage sculpture I had made situated between a four speaker and single subwoofer (“4.1”) array in a classroom at the Universität Der Kunst Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program in Berlin. Here he did a live rendition of the material that accompanies this “e.78” LP [...] I watched Patrick stretch his legs and allow the technical capabilities of the speakers to meet him and his work at the halfway point, eager to accommodate whichever direction his palette wanted to pivot, notably for the first time outside of the United States. As the night went on, everyone drank and performed karaoke. Gallagher sang Brooks & Dunn’s “Neon Moon” and charmingly crooned the songs laments of existential heartache and loneliness. The duality of his computer generated abstractions and the unabashed geographical influence of class rooted American popular country music floated together. This was the evening that Patrick Gallagher, once again, made an indelible sonic memory for me as a listener, and in my view solidified his position as ineffable underdog in the progression of American experimental sound." excerpt of writing by @nickklein____ for Patrick Gallagher - 𝐞.𝟕𝟖 (ENMB-14) ± black vinyl ± bespoke hemp paper jackets by @middle_press silkscreened by @goatmotherindustrial using black + silver ink ± ltd 100 copies ± audio mastered by glyn maier ± cover artwork (sculpture and photo) by @normalposition ± design by @joebastardo a few copies remaining at enmossed bandcamp also available via ~ @tobirarecs (JP) @oven_universe (JP) @ropeeditions (KR) @great_circles_grcr (US) @alldayrecords (US) @industrialcoast (UK)

Making sculptures is preposterous, especially in New York. Sculptures, by definition, take up space and have no practical use. How much space they take up—their scale—is instrumental in how they are experienced and interpreted. Large scale can be a shortcut to monumental. With tongue firmly in cheek, Lawn Monuments asks a group of sculptors, many based in New York, to produce works that respond to the notion of monumentality for a two-day show in a clearing in the woods. The pieces, whether whole or in parts, will need to be hiked uphill for installation. What lies at the intersection of portable and monumental? I’m so excited to take on this insane challenge and so excited to see how this brilliant group of artists tackle this #SculptureProblem. @lawn_monuments will take place August 19, in Cragsmoor, NY. Click on the link in their bio to RSVP.

@zenevloed debuts the complete Side A of Patrick Gallagher - 𝐞.𝟕𝟖 (ENMB-14) fitting, as Gallagher performed what would become 𝐞.𝟕𝟖 last summer at @occii_amsterdam presented by Zenevloed +++ photos by Gustavo Saeigh releases in full July 30, 2023 pre-order now at enmossed bandcamp ~ very few copies remain also available via ~ @tobirarecs (JP) @ropeeditions (KR) @oven_universe (JP) @industrialcoast (UK) @great_circles_grcr (US) @alldayrecords (US)

🦩SAVE THE DATE 🦩 Lawn Monuments: A show of sculptural works between portable and monumental in the Hudson Valley. Link in bio for details and to RSVP!