Artwork’s love for automobiles is actually no secret. From Daniel Arsham’s newest Arsham Motorsport to the late Pippa Garner’s seminal Karmann sculpture, each artwork and the automotive function prime autos for concepts of progress, know-how and want. Now, at Anat Ebgi gallery in Los Angeles, American artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy presents her personal tackle the connection in Temperature Test, a brand new solo exhibition of work and sculptures.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bellamy surveys driving and automotive tradition as an emblem of her metropolis, placing her personal fantastical spin to the standard “physique store”: on the coronary heart of the gallery, a putting Mantis “insecto-cycle” emerges from the bottom; whereas in Objects in Mirror figures two screens mounted inside passenger side-mirror sculptures play a sequence of driving scenes, oil on glass animations, botox injection procedures and clips of the artist making use of mud-masks product of bondo.
Transferring into the gallery, Bellamy continues her affinity with the mechanic, increasing into the realm of energy instruments. In tightly-cropped seize, the Miss Repair It trio probes concepts of progress by means of surreal, layered compositions. Geared up with a device and drill, every iteration speaks to themes of ambition, braveness and modesty by means of shifting backgrounds of wildflower fields and latticed information headlines.
Drawing from private and collective ephemera, Bellamy channels the movement and velocity of an ever-changing Los Angeles within the face of the local weather disaster, presenting a “assembly of nature and civilization on the fringe of a precarious paradise, fashioned by fireplace, drought, flood and wind,” the gallery wrote. “Bellamy’s work thrust viewers ahead, armed with hope to face unsure occasions.”
Temperature Test is now on view in Los Angeles by means of March 22.
Anat Ebgi Wilshire
6150 Wilshire Blvd #5,
Los Angeles, CA 90048
