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① Artwork:
butterfly wings
This small work is part of a series made from layers of fiberglass mesh, toilet paper, bamboo, glue, paint and gold leaf. These works exist somewhere between wall relief paintings and mounted sculptures. Each one demonstrates Lupo’s interest in text, language and symbols in their most mysterious and coded functions. Lupo treats these elements like precious notes from another world, and is drawn to imprinted candy wrappers, game boards and calendars. The artist installs this ephemera with tiny pins into the top corners of the composition, similar to the way a rare insect or antique map would be presented. These radiant compositions also reference Lupo’s larger Teller sculptures in a more modest scale.
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③ Artist:
Nancy Lupo’s artworks and installations draw our attention to often overlooked everyday objects, materials that deeply affect our understanding of the world. Her work frequently examines the mysterious and alien character of text, language and symbols. Los Angeles-based Lupo explores the potential for confusion to be a slow force that is both unsettling and full of potential.
BIO:
Nancy Lupo was born in 1983. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011.
Solo exhibitions of her work include: window where we at Dawid Radziszewski Gallery in Warsaw, Poland (2021); Teller at Kristina Kite Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2020); Scripts for the Pageant at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, California (2019); The Square at Noon at the Visual Arts Center in Austin, Texas (2019); No Country for Old Men at Antennae Space in Shanghai, China (2018); and Parent and Parroting at the Swiss Institute in New York City (2016).
Group exhibitions showing her work include: Mere Skyn at the CAPC, musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux in France (2020); Current: LA Food at the Public Art Triennial in Los Angeles, California (2019); Made in L.A. 2018 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles – A Fiction at MAC in Lyon, France (2017) as well as Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway (2016); The Poet, The Critic, and the Missing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California (2016), and Taster’s Choice at MoMA PS1 in New York City (2014).
④ Additional:
This small work, somewhere between a wall relief painting and a mounted sculpture, is made from layers of fiberglass mesh, toilet paper, bamboo, glue, paint and gold leaf. The composition demonstrates Lupo's interest in the mysterious and coded functions of language, text and symbols.More
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