• Lotus Laurie Kang
  • CV
  • Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
  • Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
  • Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries
  • Great Shuttle, New Museum
  • Earth Surge, Helena Anrather and Franz Kaka
  • Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka
  • In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter
  • Beolle, Oakville Galleries
  • Eidetic Tides, SAAG
  • Guts
  • Terrene
  • If I have a body, Remai Modern
  • Asphodel Meadows
  • NADA House, Governors Island
  • Channeller, Interstate Projects
  • A Body Knots, Gallery TPW
  • Fascia Lines, Projet Pangee
  • Line Litter, Franz Kaka
  • How deep is your love?, Cooper Cole
  • Nesticulations, In Limbo
  • Knots
  • Babble On, Rockaway Topless
  • The Mouth Holds the Tongue, The Power Plant
  • Untitled, Erin Stump Projects
Lotus Laurie Kang
CV
Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries
Great Shuttle, New Museum
Earth Surge, Helena Anrather and Franz Kaka
Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka
In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter
Beolle, Oakville Galleries
Eidetic Tides, SAAG
Guts
Terrene
If I have a body, Remai Modern
Asphodel Meadows
NADA House, Governors Island
Channeller, Interstate Projects
A Body Knots, Gallery TPW
Fascia Lines, Projet Pangee
Line Litter, Franz Kaka
How deep is your love?, Cooper Cole
Nesticulations, In Limbo
Knots
Babble On, Rockaway Topless
The Mouth Holds the Tongue, The Power Plant
Untitled, Erin Stump Projects
Beolle
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville
October 6 - January 5 2020

Laurie Kang at Oakville Galleries, Dan Adler, Artforum
Laurie Kang: Beolle, Magdalyn Asimikas, Art Papers

The work of Toronto-based artist Laurie Kang is rooted in an enduring concern with the body and the forces that shape it—political, affective and otherwise. Drawing on fields such as biology, feminist theory and science fiction, Kang stages installations that take up the body in and as a process, working with unstable, continuously sensitive materials that are functionally and metaphorically primordial and in flux.

In recent years, Kang has become known for her site-responsive wall sculptures, in which industrial materials such as steel studs and track are erected and skinned with exposed, unfixed photo papers to render scenes that are visceral and speculative in equal measure. Here in Beolle, the artist's first solo museum exhibition, she presents a series of seemingly deconstructed forms that turn away from the upright and toward the horizontal. Titled after the Korean word for “worm," Beolle largely grazes the floor, existing in a state between form and decay. From swarms of fermentation vessels to scattered casts of vegetal matter and knots of larval forms, the exhibition sees Kang engage closely with the conditions and structures of becoming, both systemic and organic.

Worm

Flex-C track, sand, cast aluminum perilla leaf, cast aluminum lotus root, powermesh

Mother
stainless steel mixing bowls, pigmented silicone, rubber, polymer clay, power mesh, paint can, cordyceps fungus, steel machinery, peach pit, lotus seed, pewter, cast aluminum ginseng, cast aluminum cabbage, cast aluminum peach pit, cast aluminum dried lotus root, cast aluminum Asian pears, cast aluminum clay forms, aluminum mesh, sand bag, plastic wrap, copper chainmaille made by Hanna Hur, reflective foil, plastic bags, copper garden mesh, mung beans, water, dried fish bladder, dried magnolia fl owers, dried hibiscus, ground mung and adzuki beans, cast bronze, hats, rosin paper

Husk
cast aluminum cabbage leaves

Guts
Photograms, magnets

Bloom 
mesh fruit bags, polymer clay, paint cans, reflective sheeting, cordyceps fungus

Knot 
unfixed and unprocessed photographic paper and darkroom chemicals (continuously sensitive), aluminum tape, steel studs, hardware, cast aluminum dried anchovies

Molt 2019
unfixed and unprocessed photographic paper and films (continuously sensitive), sand bags, silicone

Beolle
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville
October 6 - January 5 2020

Laurie Kang at Oakville Galleries, Dan Adler, Artforum
Laurie Kang: Beolle, Magdalyn Asimikas, Art Papers

The work of Toronto-based artist Laurie Kang is rooted in an enduring concern with the body and the forces that shape it—political, affective and otherwise. Drawing on fields such as biology, feminist theory and science fiction, Kang stages installations that take up the body in and as a process, working with unstable, continuously sensitive materials that are functionally and metaphorically primordial and in flux.

In recent years, Kang has become known for her site-responsive wall sculptures, in which industrial materials such as steel studs and track are erected and skinned with exposed, unfixed photo papers to render scenes that are visceral and speculative in equal measure. Here in Beolle, the artist's first solo museum exhibition, she presents a series of seemingly deconstructed forms that turn away from the upright and toward the horizontal. Titled after the Korean word for “worm," Beolle largely grazes the floor, existing in a state between form and decay. From swarms of fermentation vessels to scattered casts of vegetal matter and knots of larval forms, the exhibition sees Kang engage closely with the conditions and structures of becoming, both systemic and organic.

Worm

Flex-C track, sand, cast aluminum perilla leaf, cast aluminum lotus root, powermesh

Mother
stainless steel mixing bowls, pigmented silicone, rubber, polymer clay, power mesh, paint can, cordyceps fungus, steel machinery, peach pit, lotus seed, pewter, cast aluminum ginseng, cast aluminum cabbage, cast aluminum peach pit, cast aluminum dried lotus root, cast aluminum Asian pears, cast aluminum clay forms, aluminum mesh, sand bag, plastic wrap, copper chainmaille made by Hanna Hur, reflective foil, plastic bags, copper garden mesh, mung beans, water, dried fish bladder, dried magnolia fl owers, dried hibiscus, ground mung and adzuki beans, cast bronze, hats, rosin paper

Husk
cast aluminum cabbage leaves

Guts
Photograms, magnets

Bloom 
mesh fruit bags, polymer clay, paint cans, reflective sheeting, cordyceps fungus

Knot 
unfixed and unprocessed photographic paper and darkroom chemicals (continuously sensitive), aluminum tape, steel studs, hardware, cast aluminum dried anchovies

Molt 2019
unfixed and unprocessed photographic paper and films (continuously sensitive), sand bags, silicone