Royale Projects is pleased to announce Double Take: Lynn Aldrich x Ladan Sedighi opening October 8th, 2022.
Double Take is a continuing series of exhibitions that explore the aesthetic and conceptual intersections within a pair of artists, closely examining various dyads by comparing and contrasting practices through specific bodies of work.
Lynn Aldrich builds upon the art historical tradition of assemblage by using mass-produced objects, such as gutters, rain downspouts, and garden hoses to mimic natural and celestial phenomena. Inspired by the directness of Minimalism she infuses wit, irony, and humility to create works that meditate on light, space, and color. The metaphorical subtext of ecological concern, or even apocalyptic understatement, confess and critique the spectacle of excess in contemporary consumer culture. The dualities of her self styled "Home Depot Pop" is layered with metaphor and remind us of our own human temporality. She aspires to open herself and the viewer up to the spiritual expectation of revelation and authentic transcendence, what she considers the core of all true religion and artistic activity.
Lynn Aldrich (born 1944 in Bryan, Texas) is an American sculptor whose diverse works draw on a wide range of high and low cultural influences and media. Originally interested in natural science, philosophy, and text she received a Bachelor of the Arts in English Literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Always attracted to visual art, she began exploring painting and drawing and earned a Bachelor of the Arts in Fine Art at California State University, Northridge, and then a Masters in Fine Art at Art Center College of Design. Though she was fairly noted by critic Doug Harvey in the LA Weekly as "one of the most under-recognized sculptors in L.A.," she is a Guggenheim Fellow and has had an extensive international exhibition history. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR; the Calder Foundation and the New York Public Library in New York, NY; as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, CA.
Ladan Sedighi appropriates materials from automobile culture and commercial display signage to create works that reference hard-edge painting and Minimalist practice. Employing contemporary western technologies, such as holographic films, vinyl wraps, and acrylic sheets, she expresses a sense of pleasure and excitement drawn directly from her Persian heritage. She transforms the sensuality and luxurious colors of Middle Eastern architecture, Persian rugs, and precious jewels into transforming compositions that react to changes in space and light. She strips away the history and brings the viewer in to experience the ecstasy of the moment.
Ladan Sedighi (born 1977 in Dallas, Texas) is an American-Iranian artist noted for her work in the areas of op art, geometric abstraction and perceptual phenomena. She received her Bachelor of the Arts in Graphic Design at the prestigious Tehran Fine Arts University in Tehran, Iran and her Masters degree in Fine Arts at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. In 2019 she was introduced at Royale Projects in the exhibition “If You Steal My Sunshine: California Abstraction Now”.