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Centric 61: Gay Outlaw
October 30 - December 16, 2001Centric 61 presents the sculptural works of San Francisco-based artist Gay Outlaw. Using unusual materials, Outlaw expresses her fascination with notions of change and mobility in a language that is innovative, compelling, and thought-provoking. Drawing inspiration from her previous training as a French pastry chef, she initially began building large-scale three-dimensional works out of food for its degenerative process. In 1994, Outlaw began to fashion found objects (including pencils, chalk, and plastic straws) into deceptively simple sculptures that conflate the relationship between shape and pattern. She created agitated patterns that suggest an illusion of mutability and give the impression that the surfaces of her sculptures move and their shapes metamorphose. These abstracted forms possess an ornate complexity of surface, yet they take the ordinary shapes of cubes, spheres, and stairs.
Centric, which began in 1981, is an ongoing series of exhibitions dedicated to introducing the University Art Museum ausidence to work by individual artists that has not previously been shown in the area.
Image Credit: Installation view of exhibition, Centric 61: Gay Outlaw, University Art Museum, CSULB, 2001.
