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Laurie Pincus: Trip To Dream
On View: October 13th – December 7th, 2024
Opening Reception: Sun., October 13th, 3-6 PM
Book Launch for “Trip To Dream” Catalog: Sat., October 26th, 2-5 PM
Space Ten Gallery proudly presents “Trip To Dream”, a solo exhibition of figurative sculptures by artist Laurie Pincus. “Trip To Dream” marks her first showing in over 15 years and her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since 1989.
“When you're dreaming, whether you're a museum guard daydreaming or you’re laying in bed, where are you?” asks Pincus. “Where do we all go?” As the show title Trip To Dream suggests, this question—“Where do we all go?”—is fundamental to Pincus’s art. Taking the form of figurative larger-than-life plywood cutouts and doll-sized narrative tableaux, Pincus constructs what the poet Charles Simic calls “vehicles of reverie”––poetic sculptures that transport the viewer into worlds of imagination and dreams.
For Pincus, the imagination takes on the visual vernacular of actors on Hollywood sound stages or tiny theaters in the scenic tableaux where Pincus enigmatically poses her dream dramas. (Pincus’s father was a playwright and an early television producer, and the surreal culture of the Hollywood entertainment industry formed the backdrop of Laurie’s early life.) Though these tableaux make cheeky, humorous references to recognizable features of genre––to sitcom, romance, or film noir, for example––the sculptures themselves are mysterious edifices that unfold meaningfully only in the imagination of the beholder. In her sculpture, “Sleepwalker Walks On Water,” who is this eponymous woman sleepwalking on the surface of the swimming pool? And who is she to the man with the flashlight? In another playhouse, “Suburban Night,” why is this man beside the kissing couple holding up a television set to the night? The wooden sculptures compel imaginative speculation and elaboration to make sense of the scenes and the relationships between the characters.
“Trip To Dream” presents old and new works by the artist. At the center of the exhibition is her “Matching Sleepwalking Family”—a family of somnambulant figures dressed in matching plaid pajamas, which guide audiences through a selection of Pincus’s night time scenic tableaux. Rounding the corner into the recesses of the main gallery, the sleepwalkers usher audiences into a unique immersive installation of the artist’s enveloping dream. Presented in the small room are a new series of “rolling backgrounds,” artworks that push Pincus’s unique formal combination of narrative painting and sculpture into interactive territory.
Ephemera available for purchase are a print catalog published for the exhibition, as well as a limited edition serigraph, “Sailors Kissing.”
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