Tilt Towards Return
November 11th - December 10th
Monaco is pleased to present Tilt Towards Return a solo exhibition of work by artist Lauren Pakradooni (Philadelphia), organized by all of the members of Monaco.
Tilt Towards Return was selected as the 2022 Monaco Open Call: Main Space Winning Exhibition.
Please join us for an opening reception Friday November 11, 2022 from 6 to 9 p.m with viewings available on Saturdays from 12 to 4 p.m. and by appointment.
For all inquiries and appointments please contact: Monaco at info@monacomonaco.us
BIO
Lauren Pakradooni lives in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and BA from Hampshire College.
Lauren Pakradooni is a multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking, sculpture, and sound. Her work reflects the tension between the natural and built world through glyphs in form, shape, and patterns.
Pakradooni has performed and exhibited work with Peep Space, The Print Center, Planthouse Gallery, Space 1026, Skylab, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Epsilon Spires, Cheymore Gallery, the University of Texas at Austin, and Leisure Gallery. She has been awarded residencies by Women’s Studio Workshop, Wassaic Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.
instagram: @kalanstrauss / website: kalanstrauss.com
For all inquiries and appointments please contact: Monaco at info@monacomonaco.us
Tilt Towards Return
Tilt Towards Return navigates the spaces between nature and the built world through systems of shape, pattern, and form created using methods of printmaking and sculpture. Pakradooni creates a lexicon of glyphs that cipher and diffuses the entanglement of image and ornament associated with plant life, considering the slippage between function and beauty. Reflecting on the deep historical relationship of print to the decorative arts, works engage with applications of print to textile and paper surfaces alike.
Working in the printmaking method of monotype, the surface of her 2D works is created through layers of transparent information, a logic shared by their sculptural counterparts through the use of translucent silks and physical voids in their forms. The world-building in this exhibition is a call and response of discrete and intertwined processes, in which iteration builds association and elaboration in the relationship between flat and dimensional works. The sculptures act as supports for printed fabrics and paper, disregarded prints are recycled into sculptural material, and prints reflect shape and form within the sculptures themselves. These rhythms of symbiosis and separation are emphasized in reflection and removal in which elements are repeated, lost, or elaborated over individual works.
For all inquiries and appointments please contact: Nick Schleicher at nickschleicherart@gmail.com; IG: nick_schleicher or Monaco at info@monacomonaco.us