Does Anyone Remember Laughter? Lost Landscapes and Lonely Men features selections from Dawn DeDeaux’s MotherShip series. The exhibition, the artist’s seventh with the gallery, includes works filled with nostalgia for a nature lost. Large-scale polyptych landscapes are presented on metal plates; space clowns stand at attention in layered fields of flora and ironwork; dancing figures drift weightlessly in metallic, vibrating atmospheres; and clear, acrylic ladders decorated with coptic language climb to various heights. The post-apocalyptic works collectively consider the conditions and consequences of alienation from the natural world.
The Gallery exhibition runs concurrent with DeDeaux’s Prospect 3+ outdoor installation MotherShip III: The Station presented by Tulane University and recently featured in the New York Times and the current issue of American Theatre Magazine.
