Artist Talk | MIGRATION | TODD LABY
Artist Todd Laby talks about his artwork "Migration" included in this group show at Vessel Gallery's new location 480 23rd Street, Oakland, CA.
MIGRATION - February 15 - March 21, 2020
Migration | Wood | 160h x 17w x 24d in.
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Laby’s installation “Migration” expresses the home uprooted, precarious and on the move. Their dimensions recall the shape of animals, stilt-legged, both vulnerable and proud. Where are they from? Where are they going? Is their exodus performed willingly or forcibly? They ask, “who are we when we are not our processions or identified by place?” The piece hints at our growing displacement. It serves as a harbinger of climate change and increasing inequity while simultaneously suggesting our resilience, community and sense of discovery.
BIO
Todd Laby is a sculptor and former furniture design/maker who works in a variety of materials. He has been building and sculpting since first picking up a piece of Lego as a child. Previously focused on wood, Todd is currently exploring and creating with broken toys and unwanted consumer goods. Todd has been exhibited at Wonderland Gallery, Somarts, Vessel Gallery, the Armory Art Show (within the Art Forum lounge), New York, NY and HauteGREEN Brooklyn, NY. , as well as in various galleries in northern and southern California. In collaboration with the dance company BANDALOOP, he has exhibited at Mass MOCA and the Cache Valley Center for the Arts (Logan, UT) and received two National Endowment for the Arts grants. His work has been featured in Time Out New York, The San Francisco Examiner, Plenty Magazine, Surface Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and 7x7 Magazine. Todd has earned a BFA with distinction in Individual Studios combining Sculpture, Furniture and Industrial Design from California College of the Arts in 2004 and a BFA in Advertising Design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena/Switzerland in 1992.
MIGRATION Exhibit Slides Show
