Fall 2024

Soft Serve

Machine Dazzle + Gracelee Lawrence

September 21 – December 14, 2024
RECEPTION: Saturday, September 21, 5-8pm

Wasserman Projects is pleased to open their Fall Season with a two-person exhibition, Soft Serve, featuring Machine Dazzle and Gracelee Lawrence on view from September 21 – December 14, 2024. This exhibition highlights the maximal and fantastical force of Mother Nature through a critical and contemporary lens. A survey of recent projects will provide context to the development of the artists’ practices, echoing the perpetual growth and transformation within and around us.

Known for his extravagantly avant-garde costume design, Machine Dazzle will create an immersive and site-specific installation based on looks from his future psyche-sex-adelic synth rock theatre production Treasure. This work explores Machine’s relationship with his mother and serves as a foundation of experiences and beliefs established in the home. Considering architecture as our outermost garment to adorn, style, and reflect who we are, Machine will dress the interior of Wasserman Projects with his distinctive touch. Taking inspiration from nature and the tortoise shell as a protective garment, Machine will create a new series of wall-based sculptures with a maximal layering of found and organic materials.  

Gracelee Lawrence’s 3D-printed sculptures speak to complex relationships between food, the body, and technology. Creating hybrid human / animal / plant forms that explore the ways in which bodies are both gendered and metaphorically fragmented in terms of material desires, physical sustenance, and the digital spaces we inhabit. The vivid and playful colors in Lawrence’s work subvert the macabre, while celebrating their deliciously tactile and seductive surfaces. Suspended elements, transformed figures, and a large-scale installation composed of numerous small sculptures will pepper the galleries.

Alongside Dazzle and Lawrence, Kiwi Phong Nguyen offers a harmonizing collection of jewelry and site-specific ornamentation in Wasserman Works.