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Mokha Laget: Perceptualism
Curated by Kristen Hileman
June 11–August 7, 2022
featuring essays by Kristen Hileman, David Pagel, and a conversation between Lucy Lippard and Mokha Laget. Purchase during open hours or by emailing museum@american.edu. $30 each plus taxes and shipping, if applicable.
Gamut, 2018. Acrylic on Flashe on shaped canvas, 35 x 20 in. Courtesy Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco.
There Upon, 2020. Acrylic and Flashe on shaped canvas, 54 x 98 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Capriccio #41. Acrylic on gouache on primed linen, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston.
Featuring over 40 paintings, sculpture, drawings, and lithographs, Mokha Laget: Perceptualism surveys the last ten years of an artistic practice devoted to exploring perception and space. Through a playful and illusionistic use of color and implied dimensionality, Laget’s work references her multicultural influences, particularly the unique landscape and architecture of the places where she has lived, ranging from Northern Africa through Washington, DC to her current home in Santa Fe. The stunning shaped canvases for which Laget is best known celebrate abstraction’s capacity to respond to the complexities and ambiguities of contemporary life; the work’s visual hybridity manifests as “gentle” optical chaos. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue that considers Laget’s work as well as her contributions to the Washington, DC art community of the 1980s and ‘90s. The publication includes a dialogue between Laget and Lucy Lippard, and essays by David Pagel and exhibition curator Kristen Hileman.
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