Description - Lauren Halsey: Mohn Award 2018 by Anne Ellegood
Explore the sculpture and installation work of artist Lauren Halsey, winner of the coveted Mohn Award in 2018. Every two years, on the occasion of the Made in L.A. biennial, the Hammer Museum presents the Mohn Award to an artist whose work in the exhibition is exceptional. The 2018 winner was Lauren Halsey for her piece The Crenshaw District Hieroglyph Project (Prototype Architecture), a large structure made of plywood and gypsum and covered in bas-relief carvings. These carvings - depicting graffiti, community members, and other elements significant to South Central Los Angeles where Halsey grew up - evoke the hieroglyphs found on Egyptian temples. This book also explores a range of Halsey's earlier work and includes original texts by poet and performer Douglas Kearney, curator Anne Ellegood, as well as an interview between the artist and curator Erin Christovale. AUTHORS: Anne Ellegood is Executive Director of the ICA LA. She was the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum from 2009-2019. She is the author of Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World and Made in L.A. 2018 (both by Delmonico Books-Prestel). Erin Christovale is Associate Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the co-founder of Black Radical Imagination. SELLING POINTS: . Lauren Halsey was born in South Central Los Angeles where she lives and works.She builds experimental architectures that remix neighbourhood poetics and landscapes with living archives, nature, technicolours, afrofuturism and Funk. . This book was created in close collaboration with the artist, making this product artwork-like in its appearance and feel. . Every two years, on the occasion of the Made in L.A. biennial, the Hammer Museum honours artistic excellence by administering the Mohn Award to artists whose presentation of work in the exhibition stands out as exceptional. As part of the award, a monographic book is produced about the winner's work. 115 illustrations
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