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Lisa Williamson
Eleven Holes Jul 3, 2015 - Jan 31, 2017
LA><ART presents LA based artist Lisa Williamson’s first public project. Williamson's work is largely interdisciplinary spanning sculpture, painting, video, and text. While visually reminiscent of minimalism, Williamson's sculptures disavow minimalist conventions in their implied utility, and satirize the hypermasculinized narrative that defines the history of sculpture. Each work, contingent on architectural space as well as employing a phenomenological relationship to human mass, functions as a monumental miniature; they distort one's sense of scale in that they articulate a physical and conceptual lightness, but are startlingly heavy objects.
Originally commissioned for LA><ART's Greystone Gala, Williamson's site- specific sculpture Eleven Holestakes on a vitality in its material relationship with physical space - its wooden form evokes both a tree and a totem and somewhat seamlessly integrates into the outdoor environment in which it's installed. Like much of her work, the sculpture recalls a specific moment in the history of sculpture - the trope of totem - but simultaneously alludes to the mundane in its toy- flute shape.
Lisa Williamson is a Los Angeles based artist who has shown at Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles; Shane Cambell Gallery, Chicago; Unosunove Art Conemporanea, Rome; Small A Projects, New York; and Made in LA (2012), The Hammer Museum in collaboration with LA><ART, Los Angeles.
Lisa William’s public project is made possible with the generous support of the Pohlad Family Foundation. Special thanks to Charlie Pohlad. And with additional support from Frank Masi and Donna Kolb.
Thank you to Tif Sigrids. LA><ART Public Art Initiative is produced with support from the City of West Hollywood Art on the Outside Program.
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Press Release | download PDFLisa Williamson: Eleven Holes
Kings Road Park 1000 North Kings Road West Hollywood, CA 90069 July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016
LA><ART is pleased to announce, Eleven Holes, a public sculptural project by Los Angeles based artist Lisa Williamson at Kings Road Park in West Hollywood, California. Consistent with Williamson's interdisciplinary practice, which encompasses sculpture, painting, video, and text, Eleven Holes is conceptualized through its material relationship with physical space and the artist’s interest in slippages of meaning. Only slightly larger than human-scaled while simultaneously evoking the epic form of a monolith, Williamson’s sculpture functions as a miniature monument, creating a distorting relationship between the designed space of the city park and the viewer’s body. The wooden sculpture seamlessly integrates into the outdoor environment within which it is situated, while its deliberate repetitive form evokes the ritualistic and ceremonial purpose ascribed to the totem. Eleven Holes revisits long-standing histories of the totem as a cultural relic with specific signifiers, yet it also extends into the open signifier relationships of late modern and minimalist sculpture traditions. While visually reminiscent of minimalism, Williamson's sculpture further complicates its relationship to a Western canon—disavowing minimalist conventions in its implied utility, and satirizing the hyper-masculinized narrative identified with the history of minimalist sculpture through its mundane and playful toy-flute shape.
About the Artist Lisa Williamson is a Los Angeles based artist who has shown at Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles; Shane Cambell Gallery, Chicago; Unosunove Art Conemporanea, Rome; Small A Projects, New York; and Made in LA (2012), The Hammer Museum in collaboration with LA><ART, Los Angeles.
About LA><ART Founded in 2005, LA><ART is Los Angeles’ leading independent contemporary art space supporting artistic and curatorial freedom. The organization is committed to producing newly commissioned works of art, to present experimental exhibitions, public art initiatives, and publications with emerging, mid-career and established local, national and international artists.
LA><ART's programs are produced with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The National Endowment for the Arts; The Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Nathan Cummings Foundation, with the support and encouragement of Roberta Friedman Cummings, Dashiell Driscoll and Clea Shearer; The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation; California Community Foundation; City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation; Joel Chen; Ruth and Jacob Bloom; the Evans Family Foundation; Stanley and Gail Hollander; Lisa and Leonardo Schiff; Sima Familant; Michael and Joyce Ostin; Joseph Varet and Esther Kim Varet; Brenda R. Potter; the Maurice Marciano Family Foundation; Ron and Sindi Schwartz; Maja Kristin; Larry Mathews and Brian Saliman; Linda Janger; Phil Lord; Anonymous Donors; Claire and Eric Block, and the Offield Family Foundation.
Lisa William’s public project is made possible with the generous support of the Pohlad Family Foundation. Special thanks to Charlie Pohlad. And with additional support from Frank Masi and Donna Kolb.
Thank you to Tif Sigfrids.
LA><ART Public Art Initiative is produced with support from the City of West Hollywood Art on the Outside Program.
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