Being
Madeline Hernandez, Cairus Larsen, Mica Lilith Smith
November 23, 2019 - January 4, 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 23, 5-8pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, January 18, 6-8pm
Lease Agreement
2306-A 21st Street
Lubbock, Texas
Fabric is familiar with flesh. And it is part of the emotional corporeal mediation between human beings. In this exhibition, the works by Madeline Hernandez, Cairus Larsen, and Mica Lilith Smith, use fabric and abstraction to give voice and form to the ways we regard physical presence and empathetically engage with one-another.
Madeline Hernandez uses humor and abjectness to disarm and complicate the power dynamics that are present within objectification. Hernandez’s works create situations where we have to consider the ridiculous strangeness of having a physical form.
Cairus Larsen gives viewers objects that must be used; either individually or intimately with someone else. This work asks participants and viewers to be self-critical of the ways we respect each others’ bodily autonomy.
Mica Lilith Smith’s wall hanging pieces use stylized text and fragmented photographs to create compositions that evoke intimacy and sensuality. She uses the social and personal complexities of her own identity as a trans woman as a lens through which to investigate these ideas.
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Madeline Hernandez is a Hispanic artist originating and operating out of Texas. They graduated from the University of Mary Hardin Baylor with a BFA in studio art specifically in painting. They currently attend Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock, TX, in the pursuit of an MFA with a concentration in painting.
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Cairus Larsen is an artist from the two-stoplight town of Trinity, Texas. She received her B.F.A. in Studio Art with a Photography minor, in 2017, from Sam Houston State University and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Sculpture at Pennsylvania State University. Cairus encourages touch in her work to open dialogue about consent, accessibility, and respect.
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Mica Lilith Smith is a visual artist and educator. Smith earned her MFA from the University of Cincinnati College of DAAP in 2012. Her work is comprised of fabric installations, paintings, works on paper, and video. Smith currently lives and works in Lubbock, Texas.
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