Heavy Metal

Revisiting and challenging the historically dominant narratives of large-scale abstraction, sculpture, and Land Art, this group exhibition engages with the legacy of formalism while confronting colonial histories, memory, and the natural world. Through diverse practices and a distinctly feminist, material sensitivity, the artists reimagine the relationship between the body, object, and environment, offering new sculptural languages that both honor and unsettle the conventions of the past. Expanding beyond an initial focus on metal, the works bring material and conceptual depth to question the history of monumentality in sculpture and to propose renewed ways of thinking about form, space, and relation. Heavy Metal is curated by LAMAG curator, Nancy Meyer and includes works by Kelly Akashi, Miya Ando, Barbara Berk, Amy Bessone, Tanya Brodsky, Beatriz Cortez, Claire Chambless, Alika Cooper, Paige Emery, Katie Grinnan, Ting Ying Han, Andrea Hidalgo, Kelly Lamb, Abigail Lucien, Fay Ray, Brie Ruais, Carolyn Salas, Davina Semo, Kelly Wall, and Lisa Williamson. Research and administrative support provided by Zandra Sweeney, Oxy InternLA 2025.