{"data":{"id":"11156","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":11156,"topgoose_id":1707,"tms_id":11156,"display_name":"Lee Lozano","sort_name":"Lozano Lee","display_date":"1930–1999","begin_date":"1930","end_date":"1999","biography":"\u003cp\u003eIn Lee Lozano’s early 1960s graphite\ndrawing, inanimate objects protrude from\na rectangular, grinning face. Its crooked\nteeth grip a cigar or crayon, yet other\naccessories defy bodily logic: instead of a\nneck, a pipe and faucet extend from the\ndisembodied head; instead of eyes, a\ntriangular opening is pierced by the crank of\na brace drill, positioned so that its handle\nserves as an ear while its jaws become a\nphallic nose. The inconsistency of graphite\nmarks, which range from subtle chiaroscuro\nto violent scribbles, enhances the\nstrangeness of the scene. This grotesque,\nSurrealist collision of human and mechanical\nforms is one of many Lozano produced\nin the years immediately following her\nmove to New York around 1960. Made in\npencil, wax crayon, pastel, and paint, these\ndrawings stage disturbing, humorous,\nand perverse encounters between body\nparts—especially breasts, phalluses,\nand orifices—and a variety of handheld\ntools and household objects.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLozano’s artistic career was cut\nshort by a self-imposed exile from the art\nworld in 1972, but during the nearly\ndozen years she spent in New York she\nproduced a complex and provocative body\nof work. Her charged, mechanomorphic\ndrawings can be seen as a comment\non a turn to industrial techniques of art\nmaking, while also anticipating the gender\npolitics of the late 1960s. A subsequent\nseries of large-scale paintings and drawings\ndepicts tools in a more hard-edged\nstyle that nonetheless retains suggestive\nanthropomorphism, while her language-\nbased works of the late 1960s place her at\nthe vanguard of Conceptualism.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500048708","wikidata_id":"Q530367","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:35:54.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-12T07:00:42.597-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/11156/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/11156/exhibitions"}}}}