Rachel Lachowicz: Cockeyed

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present Cockeyed, a survey of Rachel Lachowicz's work spanning 1991–2026. The exhibition brings into focus a sustained practice that returns to and reconstructs established forms—cubes, grids, and bodies—using materially coded substances such as lipstick, powder, and wax. Rather than separating form from its history, Lachowicz keeps that connection intact, altering how it is carried and encountered. The form remains, but rebuilt in these materials, it operates under different terms. For over three decades, Lachowicz has been in active resistance and worked within canonical structures associated with modernism and Minimalism, remaking them rather than positioning herself outside them. Cosmetic materials do not function as surface; they take the place of the materials that typically secure these forms. Lipstick remains lipstick—bound to use, exchange, and the production of the body—and remains visible within the form. What has been treated as autonomous is shown to depend on those same terms. Lachowicz builds this dependency into the object, taking hold of forms that have historically excluded her and remaking them under her authorship.