825 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069
Saturday, April 9 at 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Ends May 13, 2022
As an anthropologist and a visual artist, Susan Ossman blurs the lines between ethnography and art. Her training in both fields has enabled her to create works that merge disciplines to give us an insightful and astute look at the connection of our senses with work, time and value.
Ossman shows us laundry drying in the open air, stretched across multiple canvases like sheets strung on a clothesline— informed by movement of the breeze and generations of unnamed women whose hands pinned freshly washed linens to the clotheslines. The artist folds us into a journey through time with old ways surrendering to new, just as her color palette and paint application progress from one piece to the next.