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Month: May 2015

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Jessica Dalva: Hapax Legomena

Jessica Dalva’s show Hapax Legomena is exhibiting at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in LA now through May 31st. I love the unearthly beauty of these figures with their milky opaque eyes, haunting expressions, and intensely eloquent bodies, posed within their black frames.

“The term ‘Hapax Legomena’ is used to describe words that only appear once in a text or language, often rendering them untranslatable. Each piece in this series revolves around an individual word, a facet, a unique expression of a part of the complex variety of personal battles we fight….The show focuses on one’s relationship with oneself, internal wars, and the entanglements of love. The sculptures are a navigation through fears, moments of clarity and joy, and nightmares.”

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Lauren Marx

Lauren Marx is currently exhibiting at Roq la Rue Gallery in Seattle together with Travis Louie. Her delicate, intricate, macabre drawings of animals and nature remind me of Caitlin Hackett’s work. They bring to mind the troubled magnetism that one feels as a child, coming upon a decomposing carcass in the woods, compounded of repulsion at the grotesqueness and of being transfixed in fascination, a whisper of a feeling, “as I am now, so shall you be.”

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