Sarah Lucas - The Old In Out

Barbara Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Sarah Lucas, The Old In Out. The exhibition will comprise of photographs, new sculpture and a large scale installation constructed over a period of several weeks in the gallery.

Sarah Lucas lives and works in London and has played an important part in establishing the current generation of British artists, first in London and now internationally. She has proved herself to be a key figure amongst a group of artists that has gained recognition and notoriety through their full frontal approach to making art. Lucas is best known for her appropriation of sexual clichés and derogatory expressions aimed expressly towards women, translating them into constructions or objects with titles that amplify their brutal humor.

In her forthcoming exhibition, Sarah Lucas continues to probe our collective ambivalence towards the degradation of other people. The title, The Old In Out comes from London street slang describing a robbery and like much of this language, it is overtly sexual in nature. In this context it takes on a more scatological flavor and refers to her use of bathroom furniture in creating some of the sculpture. For the installation, Life’s a Drag (Organs), she makes humorous reference to one of her favorite activities, smoking. Large scale self-portrait photographs in color and black & white will be exhibited alongside the installation and sculpture. As with fellow British artists Gilbert & George, using herself in the photographs places Lucas at the center of her art re-affirming her no-nonsense persona and confrontational approach.

Lucas has participated in many of the important group exhibitions of the new British art including the seminal exhibition Freeze, in London in 1988. She exhibited in the project room at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1993, was included in Brilliant at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 1995 and Sensation: Young British Artists in the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997.

Following her first solo show Supersensible at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in 1995, Sarah Lucas has had further solo shows at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and Portikus, Frankfurt during 1996 and Car Park at Museum Ludwig, Köln, Bunny Gets Snookered, Sadie Coles HQ, London and The Law St. John’s Loft, London, in 1997. Pressetext

Sarah Lucas - The Old In Out