May 20 - July 1, 2023
Reception: May 20, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: June 17th, 11am
In the spring of 2021, the contemporary quilts and mixed media sculpture of Lavialle Campbell were included in a group exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery entitled, of rope and chain her bones are made. The nine LA-based women in that exhibition created work revealing evidence of the hand and the use of elemental, raw materials in repetitive acts and rhythmic processes. For her solo exhibition, Disruption, Campbell presents a new group of abstract quilts aligned with Modernist aesthetics, Japanese minimalism and architecture. She describes her process as improvisational, and a form of tactile meditation. Working with fabric, thread and a home sewing machine, Campbell seeks to create “paintings,” using materials associated with women’s work and the feminist objectives surrounding the reconsideration of those practices. The exhibition also includes examples of her sculptural work, which more directly addresses personal themes. In the rope and chain exhibition, this was manifested in the use of molded ceramic baby bottle nipples in reference to her battle with breast cancer, and black-eyed peas, blackface and braided dread locks in works associated with African-American histories. In Disruption, her sculptural work employs black figurines spewing beaded ropes of rage.