VIEWING ROOM:
LACHELL WORKMAN
Lachell Workman (b. 1989, Bridgeport, CT) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Connecticut. She received her BFA in Photography from the University of Connecticut in 2011, and her MFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2015. Her work consists of photographic and sculptural installations that challenge hegemonic historical discourses. Her practice considers ritualistic practices of mourning and memorialization within inner-city spaces as a site for radical visibility. Through deconstructing ephemera such as the family snapshots, t-shirts and infrastructural materials, she works to disrupt narratives of grief from a disproportionate trauma weighted in the black body. Her recent exhibitions include THREE, At We Buy Gold (2017), Where We Land, The Union for Contemporary Art, Queering Space at Yale University (2016), and Dineo Seshee Bopape, “Untitled (of the occult instability) [feelings]”, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2016). She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,The Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center, Ox-Bow School of Art and the Vermont Studio Center.
INSTALLATIONS and Sculpture
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“I was experimenting with staining the t-shirt, trying to stiffen it, trying to find some sort of active body within some other form or material, abstraction that did not ask so much as a Black body.”
- from ‘Artists in (their) Residence: Lachell Workman’ Queens Museum
Cloaked in Black (Detail), 122 x 66 inches, Installation: Asphalt, T-shirts and fabric, 2018
Untitled 2, The Scraps are What We Have, 32 x 48 inches, Image Transfer on Canvas, 2017
QUEENS MUSEUM STUDiO PROGRAM
Artists in (their) Residence: Lachell Workman, courtesy of Queens Museum
2018-2020 Queens Museum Studio Program Artist Presentations and Q+A, courtesy of Queens Museum
R.I.P. Tees
Performance stills from "R.I.P. Tees" : A Meditation on the Archive of Mourning Led by Lachell Workman at Outlooks: Heather Hart, Storm King Art Center
FAMILY BOOK
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Shrine to Iroquois (detail), 2014
