STUDIOS: Lauren Halsey Keeps Adding Layers
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
05.01.2019
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“It’s about layers, it’s about density, it’s about ornamentation, it’s about more is more is more, it’s about covering, it’s about hands on top of hands on top of hands.” —Lauren Halsey
A highlight of Frieze New York (May 2-5, 2019, with VIP opening today, May 1) will certainly be the “architectural intervention” on site by the winner of the first Frieze Artist Award for Frieze New York, Lauren Halsey. Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work last year was included in Made in LA at the Hammer, and a solo show at MOCA, Los Angeles, we still here, there. In her exhibition at MOCA Grand Avenue, Halsey built and regularly changed an immersive space resembling a fantastical system of caves that viewers were invited to linger in and explore. The environment serves as a visionary archive reflecting the diversity of everyday black cultural experiences in South Central Los Angeles, the artist’s home since childhood.
Similarly, at Frieze New York, Halsey will create for visitors “an architectural intervention in which fantasy architecture, neighborhood ephemera, images of Du-rag models, Black ideological pyramid worlds and Afrofuturist myth coincide and coalesce.”
MOCA, Los Angeles produced this video for the exhibition with a walkthrough of the installation, and a conversation with Halsey in her Los Angeles studio.
