
Locks Gallery is pleased to present Tea Party, a group exhibition with Ann Agee (b. 1959), Polly Apfelbaum (b. 1955), Lynda Benglis (b. 1941), Hanne Friis (b. 1972), Virgil Marti (b. 1962), Maria Nepomuceno (b. 1976), Beverly Semmes (b. 1958), and Yeesookyung (b. 1963). This exhibition features sculptures and mixed media works that transform traditionally decorative materials into subversive and sensuous art forms. Through playful material experimentation as well as cultural and art historical references, these eight artists go beyond a referential relationship to quintessentially “feminine” idioms. Objects intended to become decorative or functional become displays of embodied labor. Tradition is broken apart, and domesticity and excess is rendered wrought and profound, a twisted site of expansive power and joy.