Lauren Quin
Sagittal Fours
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
Pond Society is pleased to present a solo exhibition, Sagittal Fours, featuring the recent work of artist Lauren Quin.
It is easy to forget the constant motion of our bodies at rest: they seem still except for movement of the mouth and other terminals. This illusion is only revealed when the spirals are cut, when the incomprehensible soft machinery is laid down. Then we see the language of our bodies spoken nakedly, which is to say, the language of our being.
Lauren Quin's idioms are organized with the dense poise of an ecosystem, attracting the eye with a delicate overwhelm. Many signals are multiplied until they lie down in parallel, creating one large signal, like a thousand whispers blending into an echo. Paper thin carvings of hands, eyes, bats, spiders, tunnels, mouths, and breasts protrude from a quivering pattern of volumetric tubes. These marks are simultaneous and imperative. They are embedded, inflated, overlapped and carved away again, until each element is both integral and indivisible.
The paintings are inspired by a fixation that lingers until it manifests as a shape, which is shortly buried in the busy outgrowths of her style. The final entanglement is reminiscent of visceral complexities; fern-like structures of the optic nerve and electrical impulses traveling down our tiny branches.
—Sasha Chapin
Lauren Quin lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, including Pulse Train Howl (2022), Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; Vocal Fry (2021), Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA; and group exhibitions, such as Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection (2022), Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL. Her work is held in numerous public collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Long Museum, Shanghai and Chongqing, China; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China. Her first solo exhibition at a US institution will take place this winter at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS.
Public Programming
September 24, 2:30am PT / 5:30pm Shanghai
Join Lauren Quin for a virtual walkthrough of Sagittal Fours at Pond Society, hosted via Zoom.
Join the walkthrough here.