EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION – LILY COX-RICHARD: BERM

Lily Cox-Richard will create a new sculptural work/intervention that embeds the specifics of place (including debris and litter) in ubiquitous building materials. The work will fuse intensively crafted objects, found materials, and cast concrete to challenge assumptions of positioning. Cox-Richard will also invert the gallery’s privileged space by making the sidewalk outside the gallery, and its low, floor-level windows the prime vantage point for the work. This project expands Cox-Richard’s investigations into the relationships between natural resources, stewardship, labor, landscape, and the built environment in the rapidly developing area of Midtown Houston.

Lily Cox-Richard: Berm is on view through November 3, 2018.

ABOUT LILY COX-RICHARD

Lily Cox-Richard’s sculpture engages familiar forms and materials that have become unmoored from their original contexts and roles. She mines this distance by digging into their cultural and materials histories and forging new paths between them. She has been awarded an Artadia grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Michigan’s Society of Fellows, and residencies at the Core Program, Millay Colony, RAIR Philadelphia, and the MacDowell Colony. Recent solo exhibitions include Yvonne (Guatemala City), Artpace (San Antonio, TX), She Works Flexible (Houston), Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), and the Hudson River Museum (New York). She has an upcoming exhibition scheduled for the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2019). Lily Cox-Richard lives and works in Richmond, VA, where she is assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.

Exhibition opening reception sponsored by Saint Arnold Brewing Company.