LA><ART

LA><ART is pleased to present Drawings, an exhibition of new works by Kate Costello.

Costello’s “drawings” mediate the space between the fibrous and photographic; each piece a

fabric cutout sewn onto stretched canvas assumes the form of a silhouetted photogram from a

distance and a patchwork painting up close. Costello’s drawings utilize an idiosyncratic language

of visuals that range from abstract shapes to immediately recognizable iconography. Each

drawing functions as a monumental pixel, and when tiled together on the wall as a backdrop,

evokes an aesthetic of crude theatricality consistent in her work. These drawings are in keeping

with Costello’s larger practice (which is largely interdisciplinary) in their inclination to “frame the

frame”. In her use of graphic figuration, Costello’s work calls upon the quality in which female

bodies are reduced to symbols of consumption.

About the Artist

Kate Costello is a Los Angeles based artist. Her past exhibitions include “Inside this Human

Clay”, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles (2013); “Ten Years”, Wallspace, New York (2013); Made in LA,

Hammer Museum in collaboration with LA><ART, Los Angeles (2012); “Kiki & Me” Wallspace,

New York (2011); “Making Due” Green Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven;

“THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; a billboard project

for LA><ART, Los Angeles; “Cockaigne”, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles (2010); “Tattooed

Ladies”, Wallspace, New York, 2008; “Kate Costello”, F-Space, Los Angeles (2003); “One

Another, F-Space, Los Angeles (2002), and “Small Building & Small Cities”, Storage, Los

Angeles, CA (2001).