Until...
with Lauren Kalman
Installation at Stanton Yards, Detroit, September-October 2024
Until… originates from a series of live-actions:
first, clay vessels are wheel-thrown with traditional techniques, then distorted through being held or hugged to the body and to one another, the imprint and impact of the artist altering each vessel into its final form.
The series of black stoneware vessels and similarly formed / ‘mis-formed’ glass vessels are presented with a set of multi-channel videos, each video edited to present the performing body and vessels as a glitch, scrubbing forward and back in the video space. This digital glitch extends the action of misbehavior in the original action of distorting the vessels. Together, the physical objects and digital video acts as a meditation on mourning, destruction, control, care.
Curated in emerging cultural destination, Stanton Yards, the exhibition also examines the power of the individual in shaping the world around us, each vessel a reminder of the lasting imprint of our actions.
Until...again
We revisited the 2024 exhibition by introducing a new series of smaller works created in her studio spring of 2025.
We also published our project documenting the creation and curation of Until..., an exhibition of object and video-based installations by artist and 2023 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow Lauren Kalman curated and produced by I.M. Weiss Gallery. Born as a response to the loss of physical connection induced by the pandemic and soon evolving into an exploration the powerful and liberatory agency of our own bodies in shaping reality, Until… examines the desire to hold close; the ability to smother; cathartic glitch.
Lauren Kalman is a visual artist based in Detroit, whose practice is rooted in craft, sculpture, video, photography and performance. Kalman completed her PhD in Practice-led Research from the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University. She earned a MFA in Art and Technology from the Ohio State University and a BFA with a focus in Metals from Massachusetts College of Art.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Renwick Gallery at Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, and the Korean Ceramics Foundation. In 2020 she received the Françoise van den Bosch Award for her career’s impact on the jewelry field, in 2022 she received the Raphael Founders Prize in Glass from Contemporary for Craft, and in 2023 she was named a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow.
She is currently a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Wayne State University in Detroit.