one pic #3. Nancy Lupo

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Pumps for Lunch, 2014
55-gallon Rubbermaid BRUTE container in yellow, 44-gallon Rubbermaid BRUTE container in yellow, 2 Rubbermaid BRUTE swivel dollies, 2 Tview headrest monitors in beige, media player, 33 x 33 x 37 in and 31 x 31 x 26 in
image courtesy of Laurel Gitlen, New York

The tactility of my work traffics in a kind of erotics whose wires have been crossed and confused. Food is used in many of the sculptures—real food and also fake food. Cherries are bright and sexy, while nutritional yeast might remind you of snot, fat, or the gum soles on some shoes. You aren’t sure whether they stir sensations of hunger or disgust—whether they make you horny or have stirred your decorative juices.  – NANCY LUPO for Artforum, March 2014

NANCY LUPO (born 1983) creates sculptures, objects, and site-related installations that are part ready-made, part appropriation. Because she incorporates non-traditional materials like quinoa, chia seeds, nutritional yeast, or kitty litter into her sculptures, her work exists as disconcerting objects that invite us to re-evaluate our own criteria for understanding forms and their cultural origins.

➝ this work is currently part of the group exhibition Mineral Spirit at Laurel Gitlen Gallery in New York on view until August 8, 2014



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