Repetition, exaggeration and the process of making are the common threads that tie the works together in Face Up. In three works by Lee Lozano, she repeats the same gesture over and over through oil painting and pastel drawing while Bruce Nauman's silkscreen print suite Studies for Holograms captures five different contorted facial expressions emphasized by the use of acid yellow, grey green and inky blacks. Sarah Lucas's Cigarette Tits from her cigarette sculpture series of the early 2000's, is an iconic female form made from the meticulous and repetitive stacking of cigarettes, capturing the full slump of a heavily bosomed seated female form through an economy of means. Each of the works are exaggerated caricatures of recognizable gestures, left open and ambiguous to override static meaning.
curated by Elizabeth Zvonar and Jenifer Papararo