Lee Lozano: "Works on Paper from the 1960’s"
April 16 - May 21, 2005
Solo Projects
Studio B
177 South Sycamore Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90038
Thomas Solomon is pleased to present the first one-person exhibition in California of the work of Lee Lozano (1930-1999). Lee Lozano: Works on Paper from the 1960’s will open on Saturday, April 16 at Solo Projects, Studio B, a garage space reminiscent of the gallery Solomon operated in the late 1980’s.
Lee Lozano: Works on Paper from the 1960’s will consist of eight pencil and colored pencil drawings. Depicting ordinary industrial tools such as hammers, screws, wrenches, razor blades, and staple guns, these drawings are sinister and sexual, freaked out and funny, and all bear the signature of Lozano’s quirky and singularly demented mind. Like other still life artists of her generation - Wayne Thiebaud, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Vija Celmins - Lozano here seems intrigued if not obsessed with hardware, with the idea of creation and destruction, and with the metaphors of home improvement and repair.
Lee Lozano graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960 and moved to New York, where she lived until 1972. She died in Dallas in 1999. Her first one-person exhibition was at Bianchini Gallery, New York in 1966. Subsequent solo exhibitions include Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne in 1969; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in 1970; Lisson Gallery, London in 1971; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford in 1998; and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in a group exhibition titled “Afterimage: Drawing Through Process.” Lee Lozano was the subject of an extremely well received retrospective curated by Robert Nickas at PS1 in Long Island City in 2004.