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Mokha Laget: Perceptualism
Curated by Kristen Hileman
June 11August 7, 2022
featuring essays by Kristen Hileman, David Pagel, and a conversation between Lucy Lippard and Mokha Laget. Purchase during open hours or by emailing museum@american.edu. $30 each plus taxes and shipping, if applicable.
Gamut, 2018. Acrylic on Flashe on shaped canvas, 35 x 20 in. Courtesy Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco.
There Upon, 2020. Acrylic and Flashe on shaped canvas, 54 x 98 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Capriccio #41. Acrylic on gouache on primed linen, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston.
Featuring over 40 paintings, sculpture, drawings, and lithographs,Mokha Laget: Perceptualismsurveys the last ten years of an artistic practice devoted to exploringperception and space.Through a playful and illusionistic use of color and implied dimensionality, Lagets work referencesher multicultural influences, particularly the unique landscape and architecture of the places whereshe has lived, ranging from Northern Africa through Washington, DC to her current home in Santa Fe. The stunning shaped canvases for which Laget is best known celebrate abstractions capacity to respond to the complexities and ambiguities of contemporary life; the works visual hybridity manifests as gentle optical chaos. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue that considers Lagets workas well as her contributions to the Washington, DC art community of the 1980s and 90s.The publication includes a dialogue between Laget and Lucy Lippard, and essays by David Pagel and exhibition curator Kristen Hileman.
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