Three Rope Prop | Michelle Lopez
For her first exhibition with the David Petersen Gallery, Michelle Lopez will exhibit “Three Rope Prop".
Editor's Note: This exhibition has been postponed. More details TBA.
"Three Rope Prop" is a monumental piece created with electrostatically-flocked and twisted steel that continues her ongoing inquiry into the shifting of a viewer’s perception and suspending disbelief through the material transformation of seemingly mundane objects.
Lopez’s installations — precarious assemblages of humble yet labor-intensive materials such as hand-twisted steel rope, pulled glass, bent wood, and street rubble — draw from the aesthetic languages and histories of industrialization, art movements, and the built environment to critique the ways in which dominant narratives, power, and authority shape space. Tracing her work alongside queer and feminist lineages of abstraction, as well as a rigorous research process into her materials, Lopez makes a case for the formal and political stakes of a present-day sculptural practice.
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday 12-5pm
Image: Michelle Lopez
SAFETY DREAM (detail), 2023
steel, nylon
H 111 x W 73.5 x D 85 inches
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