Lucy Puls - Just You
LUCY PULS - Just You
Edited by Dena Beard
Published by Verge Center for the Arts
Pages: 100
Size: 7 × 8”
Weight: 11oz
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9780692511725
This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition Lucy Puls [just you] on view at the Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street, Sacramento, CA, 95811 from September 10th to October 25th 2015. The exhibition was curated and designed by Dena Beard. Catalog essay by Dena Beard.
For the past three decades, Lucy Puls has been turning unwanted objects and photos of abandoned domestic environs into insignias of the consumer world. Lucy Puls: [just you] encompasses over 40 objects from 1987-2015, with the past decade being a particular focus. During that time, she has refined her interest in found objects and collage and created several new bodies of work. These works, which range from smaller, diorama-like floor sculptures to complex wall pieces, incorporate photographs, stubbed out cigarettes, kitschy souvenirs, home stereo systems, pop culture cast-offs, and household products.
Although relatively obscure, Puls has created an immediately recognizable aesthetic that, alongside artists like Eva Hesse and Isa Genzken, challenges definitions of how female artists work. By impressing her own rigid self-imposed set of treatments and rules upon discarded objects and environments, Puls transforms how we perceive their value. Often this involves covert investigations, toxic substances, and aggressive treatment of materials usually associated with male sculptors. While flipping this cliché on its head, Puls interrogates these abandoned domestic spaces and castoff objects, and infusing them with a system of values that critiques patriarchal consumerism. — Dena Beard
Lucy Puls received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is represented in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA), the Crocker Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the Jewish Museum in New York. Puls is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California at Davis. She lives and works in Berkeley, California. Represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.
Lucy Puls’ work was featured in the exhibition, Apostrophe, at Personal Space in 2023.
LUCY PULS - Just You
Edited by Dena Beard
Published by Verge Center for the Arts
Pages: 100
Size: 7 × 8”
Weight: 11oz
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9780692511725
This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition Lucy Puls [just you] on view at the Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street, Sacramento, CA, 95811 from September 10th to October 25th 2015. The exhibition was curated and designed by Dena Beard. Catalog essay by Dena Beard.
For the past three decades, Lucy Puls has been turning unwanted objects and photos of abandoned domestic environs into insignias of the consumer world. Lucy Puls: [just you] encompasses over 40 objects from 1987-2015, with the past decade being a particular focus. During that time, she has refined her interest in found objects and collage and created several new bodies of work. These works, which range from smaller, diorama-like floor sculptures to complex wall pieces, incorporate photographs, stubbed out cigarettes, kitschy souvenirs, home stereo systems, pop culture cast-offs, and household products.
Although relatively obscure, Puls has created an immediately recognizable aesthetic that, alongside artists like Eva Hesse and Isa Genzken, challenges definitions of how female artists work. By impressing her own rigid self-imposed set of treatments and rules upon discarded objects and environments, Puls transforms how we perceive their value. Often this involves covert investigations, toxic substances, and aggressive treatment of materials usually associated with male sculptors. While flipping this cliché on its head, Puls interrogates these abandoned domestic spaces and castoff objects, and infusing them with a system of values that critiques patriarchal consumerism. — Dena Beard
Lucy Puls received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is represented in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA), the Crocker Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the Jewish Museum in New York. Puls is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California at Davis. She lives and works in Berkeley, California. Represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.
Lucy Puls’ work was featured in the exhibition, Apostrophe, at Personal Space in 2023.
LUCY PULS - Just You
Edited by Dena Beard
Published by Verge Center for the Arts
Pages: 100
Size: 7 × 8”
Weight: 11oz
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9780692511725
This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition Lucy Puls [just you] on view at the Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street, Sacramento, CA, 95811 from September 10th to October 25th 2015. The exhibition was curated and designed by Dena Beard. Catalog essay by Dena Beard.
For the past three decades, Lucy Puls has been turning unwanted objects and photos of abandoned domestic environs into insignias of the consumer world. Lucy Puls: [just you] encompasses over 40 objects from 1987-2015, with the past decade being a particular focus. During that time, she has refined her interest in found objects and collage and created several new bodies of work. These works, which range from smaller, diorama-like floor sculptures to complex wall pieces, incorporate photographs, stubbed out cigarettes, kitschy souvenirs, home stereo systems, pop culture cast-offs, and household products.
Although relatively obscure, Puls has created an immediately recognizable aesthetic that, alongside artists like Eva Hesse and Isa Genzken, challenges definitions of how female artists work. By impressing her own rigid self-imposed set of treatments and rules upon discarded objects and environments, Puls transforms how we perceive their value. Often this involves covert investigations, toxic substances, and aggressive treatment of materials usually associated with male sculptors. While flipping this cliché on its head, Puls interrogates these abandoned domestic spaces and castoff objects, and infusing them with a system of values that critiques patriarchal consumerism. — Dena Beard
Lucy Puls received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is represented in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA), the Crocker Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the Jewish Museum in New York. Puls is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California at Davis. She lives and works in Berkeley, California. Represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.
Lucy Puls’ work was featured in the exhibition, Apostrophe, at Personal Space in 2023.