Join the Hammer Museum to celebrate the opening of Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel, the first American survey of one of the UK’s most influential artists.
Over the past 30 years, Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London, UK) has created a distinctive and provocative body of work that subverts traditional notions of gender, sexuality, and identity. Since the late 1980s, Lucas has transformed found objects and everyday materials such as furniture, cigarettes, vegetables, and stockings into absurd and confrontational tableaux that boldly challenge social norms. The human body and anthropomorphic forms recur throughout Lucas’s works, often appearing erotic, humorous, fragmented, or reconfigured into fantastical anatomies of desire.
Initially associated with a group known as the Young British Artists (YBAs), who began exhibiting together in London in the late 1980s, Lucas is now one of the UK’s most influential artists. Bringing together more than 130 works in photography, collage, sculpture, and installation, Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel reveals the breadth and ingenuity of the artist’s practice. The exhibition addresses the ways in which Lucas’s works engage with crucial debates about gender and power–with a particular attentiveness to the legacy of surrealism—from her clever modifications to everyday objects to her exploration of sexual ambiguity and the tension between the mundanely familiar and the disorientingly strange. Read more about this exhibition HERE.
Free and open to the public, with food trucks, cash bar, and music by DJ Natalie James and DJ Suga Shay. Hammer members receive priority entry and a free first drink. CLICK HERE to RSVP for this FREE event.
On view: June 9 – September 1, 2019
Where: The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, LA, 90024
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu
