"Larner’s new sculptures—delicate, form-oriented, and static—represent the antithesis of violent movement. Mounted on the wall, these constructions hew toward saddle-, plate-, and pill-shaped geological elements, partially riven and cragged but unified through a subtending structure. In a number of pieces, she has applied successive layers of glaze to transform the rough and lithic into ethereal, lustrous surfaces. Coalesce, the most effective of these glossed-surface works, features a cinnabar-colored segment that snakes like a tongue from a larger robin’s-egg-blue slab. In Durable Goods (2025), a pair of moss- and coral-flecked brown-butter fragments are pieced together with a crooked, tear-shaped form. Negative space divides the three elements from one another like an invisible vein pushing the slivered particles adrift. The inventive composite form is highlighted by dry sheens of pistachio, matte coffee-brown, and chartreuse-olive. These sculptures, in which Larner avoids a uniform palette, make for optically sensuous amalgamations, as adjacent tones are set into a tension that allows the viewers’ eyes to linger over and unify the collision of severed pieces. Here, palette assiduously licenses form." -Ekin Erkan, Sculpture Magazine
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Liz Larner is on view through October 22, 2025 on gallery floors 1 and 2.
