Josephine Durkin When I saw you last…

Josephine Durkin’s research and studio practice has involved the creation of drawings, videos, sculptures, and large-scale, interactive and kinetic installations that personify recognizable or manipulated objects and materials. These are then used to suggest, mimic, invite or isolate human gestures, activities, and relationships. She works with a variety of methods to investigate how materials and objects can be manipulated and positioned to function as human surrogates. In this solo exhibition at Lawndale Art Center, works include painted fans and cast, plastic pillows, manipulated school desks that “speak” to each other by way of a sensored, electromechanical sound system, and drawings that combine digital photographs of fabric and rubber with acrylic and colored pencil.