December 4 - January 8, 2022
From Benign Neglect:
“Exhibition Statement
Benign Neglect addresses the potential for aesthetic pleasure and conceptual content found in the discards of our
everyday landscape. Surveying the ignored, the abandoned, and the ruined, I acknowledge that objects, whether art
objects or otherwise, have been issued a conceptual death sentence the moment they enter the world. However well-
made or well-intentioned, the stuff of the world is inexorably marred by this finality. At its grandest, this project seeks to
create new ways of thinking about ordinary objects and their inevitable fragmentation.
Artist
Heidi Schwegler works in the interstitial ruins of Beijing, Los Angeles, New York City and suburban America. She
rescues haphazardly disused scraps from the bowels of the megalopolis: chicken bones, Big Gulps, broken signs, lost
shoes, crumpled pylons, take out containers. Plastic, fiber, and bone: these materials decay but never decompose. A
peerless craftsperson, she resynthesizes her sources into facsimiles with cast glass, gold, silver, wax, resulting in artwork
that persists in a “living death.” Recent exhibition venues include WBG London Projects (London), Asphodel (New
York), Sheldon Museum (Lincoln, NE), and the Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon). Schwegler is a Ford Family
Fellow, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a Yaddo Artist-in- Resident. Reviews of Schwegler’s work have appeared in Art
in America, Daily Serving, ArtNews, Modern Painters, and the Huffington Post. Schwegler is the founder of the Yucca
Valley Material Lab, a platform for making and thinking.”
Reception: December 4, 2021 | 1–8 pm
3508 Lake Street
Houston, 77098 TX
713-862-4425
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