Wild Weather opens November 14 at Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX)
“In Wild Weather, Lori Larusso files a meteorological report. The conditions it records are a forecast for how we live, a reading of the climate inside the home.
The artist pursues two types of work: rectangular, single-subject paintings and cut-out panels. Wild Weather gathers the panels, shaped paintings whose crisp edges trace the outline of what they depict. These have recently figured in institutional shows. Larusso’s first museum solo exhibition, at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts last year, was a large-scale installation titled A Paradox of Plenty: piles of familiar, discarded objects, abundance sliding into decay. An installation titled Precarious Panoply at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati preceded it. Now, Wild Weather is the first time the pieces are recontextualized for another space, a mini installation in conversation about what we look out for and what comes looking for us.”
— exhibition essay excerpt, Eve Hill-Agnus (Paris, France)