Lesley Moon | Tortoise – On – Domino (March 12th, 7-10 pm)

Exhibitions

For her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Workspace presents
Tortoise-On-Domino by Lesley Moon, an installation driven by mixed
metaphors and their materials, and a sense of a game that has changed
its own rules. Salty floors and the potential for insouciant delight
abound through the subjective/objective play the artist employs
throughout the various sculptural and photographic moments created.
Taking from the socio-linguistic invocation of Broodthaers and the
musicality and estranged rapprochement of Genzken and Koether, the
works explode their own terminologies and arise into delicate
re-articulations and discursive spaces. Lettuce and impatiens
scattered across the floor add an aleatoric notion to this
mise-en-scene – humorously knocking about reciprocal relationships of
quality, materiality, and contingency.

Lesley Moon is an artist and writer, born in Santa Monica, CA. In 2006 she
co-founded Deixis, an occasional journal for intersections of art and
text. She worked with artist Mateo Tannatt to produce 2008′s Boofthle
Booth-Booth: Deux Doox – The Hollywood Biennial at the Pauline Gallery
and recently was a part of New Atlantis Enterprises, a collective
founded by Piero Golia dedicated to specialized research and
production. In 2010, her public project, a large-scale photographic
mural entitled The Golden Veil (Et in Arcadia…), was installed at the
7th and Fig Ernst & Young Marketplace in Downtown Los Angeles. She has
exhibited at the Frederick Gallery, Musee Los Angeles, Five Thirty
Three and See Line Gallery in West Hollywood, CA.