Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Ted Lawson
Dark Blue Labyrinth #7, 2019
MDF, aluminum, laquer
32 x 28 inches
Shipping Location: New York
Ted Lawson’s hybrid painting-objects are a trenchant metaphor for the existential cul-de-sacs and cognitive dead ends that are a direct result of information overload. Lawson’s work often uses technology as...
Ted Lawson’s hybrid painting-objects are a trenchant metaphor for the existential cul-de-sacs and cognitive dead ends that are a direct result of information overload. Lawson’s work often uses technology as a regressive allegory for human existence. The maze, a vast nonrepeating pattern derived from a limited set of rudimentary wall structures and forms is at once a classical reference to the odyssey of the individual and a pointed analogy for the progression of human language and technology. It is both an invitation to solve the impossible riddle and an endless prison of our own making.