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 ...
by Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times
Apr 04, 2022
4 minutes
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.
Next up: Sara Cwynar, Phillip John Velasco Gabriel and Ilana Savdie. The goal is to free them up, for
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