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LeMel's 'Suspended States' at George Billis Gallery

Los Angeles-based sculpture artist Maddy LeMel's latest work comprises wire and metal cages.

A reception for Los Angeles-based assemblage and sculpture artist Maddy LeMel was recently held at Culver City’s George Billis Gallery, for her latest installation called Suspended States.

LeMel, who has been called a “scavenger poet,” is known for mixed-media constructions incorporating found objects that are reclaimed and given second lives in pieces created with wire, screen, thread, paper and metal fragments.

According to a press release, LeMel’s new pieces for Suspended States are wire and metal cages containing vintage tools from her extensive collection. The tools exist almost as anthropomorphized characters, contemplating escape through the openings in each cage. Connected by winding ladders, the works form a cohesive installation.  Also featured are smaller, wall-mounted pieces, which LeMel calls “shadow works,” that evoke memories of past entrapment.

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In an essay for the show, Los Angeles-based painter and critic Constance Mallinson wrote, “Through combinations of the most ordinary objects that mysteriously morph into potent symbols and allegories of shifting human emotions, conditions, and situations, transformation has come to define the sculpture of Maddy LeMel.”

Click here to see pictures of LeMel’s Suspended States exhibit.

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