LIFE QUESTIONS HERSELF SO AT ME>>> by Lauren Klotzman

Opening: June 2nd 7-10pm

Red Space Gallery is pleased to present Lauren Klotzman and her exhibition of conceptual correspondence poetry LIFE QUESTIONS HERSELF SO AT ME>>>  The opening reception will take place on Saturday June 2nd from 7:00 to 10:00 in the evening. This exhibition will run through June 24th. A talk by Katie Geha, in conversation with Klotzman, will be presented on June 3rd from 1:00 to 2:00 in the afternoon the day after the opening.

LIFE QUESTIONS HERSELF SO AT ME>>> draws from ethnographic, psychoanalytic, art historical, and poetic thinking, presenting a series of documents, correspondence, and text generated from a word game played between the artist and her ex-lovers. The work takes its central, generative source from both E.E. Cummings’ erotic poems and the children’s game of Mad Libs.  The resulting documents operate from and reference not only a rich lineage of game-playing in art history, but also the practices of conceptual art and poetics. The ludic operations of the artist and participants culminate in a series of (self-)portraits: in their exhibition as a cohesive collection, the body of text gestures toward a group likeness, which perhaps says more about the artist (acting as curator/ethnographer) than any of the individuals as such. It is a poetic, textual, curatorial, and documentary portrait of both distance and intimacy, of eroticism and the everyday, of estrangement and similitude.

 

BIO

Lauren Klotzman is an artist, writer, and critic presently based out of Austin, Texas. Educated at Sarah Lawrence College, Naropa University, and Rhode Island School of Design, her work draws from Art Historical and Anthropological points of reference, with particular emphasis on Minimalism, Post-Modern (Judson Church) Dance, so-called “renegade” Surrealism, and the infiltration of the written word into art practice.

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Lauren Klotzman’s web presence is located at: netdotcomdotnetdotcomdotnetdotcom.biz

Upcoming:

Mikaylah Bowman: Opens July 2012