{"data":{"id":"3366","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":3366,"topgoose_id":1585,"tms_id":3366,"display_name":"Liz Larner","sort_name":"Larner Liz","display_date":"1960–","begin_date":"1960","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eIn explorations of what she calls “basic\nsculptural ideas,” Liz Larner makes works\nfrom a range of connotative materials:\nmirrors, living trees, aluminum, rope,\nfalse eyelashes, surgical gauze, ceramic,\nplexiglass, and leather, arranging them\nin large-scale, frequently colorful, abstract\ncompositions of grids, solid forms,\ntangles, chains, and weavings. On the\none hand, Larner’s mature body of\nwork, begun in the late 1980s, accedes to\nthe traditional modernist attitude that\nsculpture’s proper domain is space; on the\nother hand, Larner refuses historical\nprotocols of formal purity.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake the wobbly, uncanny shape\nof\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/13379\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;Two or Three or Something\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e: twelve\napproximately equal sections of steel rod,\neach wrapped in paper washed with\nyellow watercolor, would form the edges of\na cube were they straightened out and\nset at perpendicular angles, yet the\nsculpture, poised unstably on the ground on\nthree corners, appears to have shimmied\nitself out of the confines of that ideal\ngeometry. It also manages to establish\nvolume without mass or density, existing on\nthe pressure point between presence\nand absence, or between the implied space\nit demarcates and the larger space in\nwhich it exists and which is shared by the\nviewer. The mixed-media work evokes\ndrawing through its linearity and the artist’s\nuse of paper, while the bright watercolor\nsuggests the painting tradition. It challenges\nthe requirement that artwork occupy\neither two or three dimensions. The viewer’s\nmovement around the piece maps a\nterrain of perception in which boundaries\nare permeable and implied volumes\nshift, and thus delivers the “something”\nnamed in its title.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500118780","wikidata_id":"Q16193702","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:31:14.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-28T07:09:00.009-05:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/3366/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/3366/exhibitions"}}}}