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How artist Laurie Kang 'misuses' material to create tactile, carnal installations

LOS ANGELES — Blood, sweat and snot — and Dior Backstage Eyeshadow Palette in neutral tones. These are the images that rushed to mind, unfiltered, upon stepping into Laurie Kang's art studio the other day. The Toronto-based Kang is the inaugural artist-in-residence at Horizon Art Foundation, a new downtown L.A. nonprofit nurturing emerging and midcareer artists from around the globe. Horizon ...
Artist Laurie Kang poses for a portrait by artwork she created with film inside Horizon's studio where she has been working on art through their residency program in downtown on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.

LOS ANGELES — Blood, sweat and snot — and Dior Backstage Eyeshadow Palette in neutral tones.

These are the images that rushed to mind, unfiltered, upon stepping into Laurie Kang's art studio the other day.

The Toronto-based Kang is the inaugural artist-in-residence at Horizon Art Foundation, a new downtown L.A. nonprofit nurturing emerging and midcareer artists from around the globe. Horizon provides artists — four a year for up to three months each — with working and living spaces in L.A. as well as a stipend.

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