If you’ve ever pondered the connection between eroticism, geometry and death at any great length, you and sculptor Ted Lawson would have plenty to talk about for those three unlikely bedfellows are the central themes of Crude, the Bostonian’s second solo exhibition following last year’s Entropy.
What connects his Crude series arranged as an installation at Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, NYC, is not just their colour, but the physical links formed by their dripping coating, calling to mind the viscous quality of crude oil. A mixture of created geometrical and found objects, representing the forgotten memories of the everyday, have been covered, the dripping and pooling effects cleverly creating the bases on which they stand.
In Lawson’s other major work at the gallery, The Death of Narrative, he shows us a life-size nude, posed in ambiguity. Again geometric shapes are plentiful, lying alongside human figures and physical remnants. But is the plethora of objects and figures on which she rests a mattress, or a grave? Viewers can pick them up for a closer look and decide for themselves until 23rd June.
