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Lauren Halsey has announced an exhibition of new works at Gagosian\u2019s Park & 75th gallery
\nOn view will be new works from her celebrated plaza sign and protruded engravings series
\nThe installation will be on view from November 14 through December 20<\/p>\n
Hot off the heels of her sold-out solo booth<\/a> at Frieze London, Lauren Halsey<\/a> is set to grace New York with a touch of West Coast flair in a new exhibition opening at Gagosian<\/a>\u2018s Upper East Side outpost next month. Drawing on the aesthetics of her hometown, South Central, the presentation will debut new works that ruminate on the mythos of Los Angeles and Black American life at large.<\/p>\n On view will be a new, six-foot-tall sculpture from her plaza sign series. Riffing on the visual aesthetic and palettes found on Black and brown-owned business signage, the work confronts the crucial roles community members and institutions play when their neighborhoods are faced with economic inequality, systemic racism, state violence, gentrification and displacement.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThese works grow out of my desire to create a vocabulary and practice that exists somewhere beyond celebration and preservation,\u201d the artist explained. \u201cThey represent my dreamscape for a plaza and my yearning to create a unique portrait of a place. I celebrate how color, text and informal language are used in my neighborhood to articulate the promise of a business or community institution.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Additionally, her monochrome sculptural reliefs from the protruded engravings series (2022\u2013) trace Black culture in Los Angeles through history and myth, while recalling new technical directions that emerged from her stint in Harlem. Akin to ancient hieroglyphs, these engravings transform South Central\u2019s everyday people and places into icons of alternative temporal visions, bridging its vibrant community and culture with Afro-diasporic mythologies, funk music, personal memory and collective history.\n<\/p>\n