Isa Gagarin — Estuary / Gudrun Lock — Liquidation

HAIR + NAILS is pleased to announce Isa Gagarin — Estuary + Gudrun Lock — Liquidation, concurrent solo art exhibitions of sculpture/painting/installation by two important Minneapolis artists.

Both Gagarin and Lock are exhibiting at HAIR+NAILS for the first time and are each taking a highly site-specific approach to the storefront gallery. Gagarin will coat the gallery’s basement ceiling beams directly with earth-based pigments mixed with casein paint. Her “Estuary” focuses the viewer’s attention on the experience of “re-orientation”: the trip down the stairs when “what was once the ground floor under foot becomes the ceiling overhead”. Above, on the ground floor, Lock’s sculptures are simultaneously dense and light, chunky and sprouting, bottom-heavy and sky-and-sunlight-through-windows- reaching. Conceptually, Lock’s “Liquidation” is both serious and light-hearted: she is clearing out her studio accumulations, sparking a conversation about value in relation to the objects and the artist’s labor.