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Lauren Clay: Windows and Walls
Asya Geisberg Gallery is pleased to present Lauren Clay, 鈥淲indows and Walls鈥�, a solo exhibition of sculpture, mounted on a wallpaper installation that covers the gallery walls. Previously featured in 鈥淢onochromatic鈥� at AGG, Clay鈥檚 work has become increasingly complex, and in 鈥淲indows and Walls鈥� the marbleized wallpaper and biomorphic sculpture intertwine visually and conceptually. Originating as white, tubular, and textured twists on the angular rigidity and slickness of Minimalism, Clay鈥檚 sculptures adopt pronounced references to space, architecture, and the body, and add high color and detailed curlicues. In tandem, her wallpaper acquires a double layer of illusionistic yet improbable spaces floating on a background of seemingly never-ending undulating stripes of color. The artist鈥檚 process translates a small collage of hand-marbled paper into an immersive floor-to-ceiling environment. Using traditional marbling techniques that evoke antique books, Clay鈥檚 psychedelic patterns leap from elegant old-world decoration to contemporary, digitally scanned, and aggressively scaled work.
In this exhibition, a riddle of Escher-like patterns with quixotic spaces forms a backdrop for equally playful sculptures, which similarly vibrate between flat and illusionistic space. The viewer is asked to re-situate oneself continually 鈥� the sculptures fold and curve in rhythmic parallels, but also interrupt the gaze with cracks of bright color, and suggest openings or windows that force a point of view. In Clay鈥檚 universe, instead of a window into real space the negative spaces act as a frame for the wallpaper, frustrating the need for 鈥渉ere鈥� and 鈥渢here鈥�. The sculptures hint at the physicality suggested by the wallpaper, whose architectural arches, columns, and possible edifices are nonetheless patently unreal. The ever more oneiric spaces - influenced by the architecture of Claude Costy, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, or the drawings of Nathalie du Pasquier 鈥� turn the gallery into pathways through time, space, and scale.
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Asya Geisberg Gallery is pleased to present Lauren Clay, 鈥淲indows and Walls鈥�, a solo exhibition of sculpture, mounted on a wallpaper installation that covers the gallery walls. Previously featured in 鈥淢onochromatic鈥� at AGG, Clay鈥檚 work has become increasingly complex, and in 鈥淲indows and Walls鈥� the marbleized wallpaper and biomorphic sculpture intertwine visually and conceptually. Originating as white, tubular, and textured twists on the angular rigidity and slickness of Minimalism, Clay鈥檚 sculptures adopt pronounced references to space, architecture, and the body, and add high color and detailed curlicues. In tandem, her wallpaper acquires a double layer of illusionistic yet improbable spaces floating on a background of seemingly never-ending undulating stripes of color. The artist鈥檚 process translates a small collage of hand-marbled paper into an immersive floor-to-ceiling environment. Using traditional marbling techniques that evoke antique books, Clay鈥檚 psychedelic patterns leap from elegant old-world decoration to contemporary, digitally scanned, and aggressively scaled work.
In this exhibition, a riddle of Escher-like patterns with quixotic spaces forms a backdrop for equally playful sculptures, which similarly vibrate between flat and illusionistic space. The viewer is asked to re-situate oneself continually 鈥� the sculptures fold and curve in rhythmic parallels, but also interrupt the gaze with cracks of bright color, and suggest openings or windows that force a point of view. In Clay鈥檚 universe, instead of a window into real space the negative spaces act as a frame for the wallpaper, frustrating the need for 鈥渉ere鈥� and 鈥渢here鈥�. The sculptures hint at the physicality suggested by the wallpaper, whose architectural arches, columns, and possible edifices are nonetheless patently unreal. The ever more oneiric spaces - influenced by the architecture of Claude Costy, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, or the drawings of Nathalie du Pasquier 鈥� turn the gallery into pathways through time, space, and scale.
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