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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a walkthrough of ‘Thomas J Price. Beyond Measure’ led by 
 Thomas J Price and Dhyandra Lawson, Andy Song Assistant Curator 
 LACMA.\n\nThomas J Price’s multidisciplinary practice amplifies the 
 visibility of marginalized bodies and challenges our preconceived attitudes 
 towards power and value. ‘Beyond Measure’ marks the British artist’s 
 first comprehensive solo exhibition in the US, following his acclaimed 
 public presentation ‘Witness’ (2022) with The Studio Museum in Harlem, 
 NY. Featuring an entirely new series of sculptures in bronze and marble, 
 the exhibition expands on Price’s intrinsic understanding of materiality 
 and scale to respond to traditional art canons and social structures. 
 Whether encountered in a gallery or in public spaces, Price’s works draw 
 the viewer’s attention to the nuances of conditioned behaviors and 
 psychological frameworks, interrogating how we collectively occupy space. 
 ‘Beyond Measure’ is a celebration of the strength of everyday 
 individuals, focusing on the universal human qualities that unite us, and 
 providing an opportunity to arrive at a shared moment of 
 connection.\n\nThis event is free, however, reservations are 
 recommended.\n\nAbout Thomas J Price\n\nThomas J Price has rapidly become 
 one of the most important British contemporary artists of his generation, 
 subverting stereotypical representations of figures we value in society and 
 traditional power structures. After studying at Chelsea College of Art, he 
 completed his MA at the Royal College of Art, London and began further 
 interrogating the language of monumentalism to question the status inherent 
 in public sculptures. Price has exhibited widely in the UK and 
 internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Yorkshire Sculpture 
 Park, West Bretton (2014), National Portrait Gallery, London (2016) and The 
 Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2019). In 2021, Price was 
 commissioned by Hackney Council to create the first permanent public 
 sculptures to celebrate the contribution of the Windrush generation and 
 their descendants in the UK, unveiled in June 2022. Price’s solo 
 presentation, ‘Witness,’ with The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY was on 
 view in Marcus Garvey Park from 2021 – 2022. Forthcoming 2023 
 institutional projects include a public unveiling at the National Portrait 
 Gallery, London, UK on 22 June 2023 and a solo exhibition, ‘Thomas J 
 Price at the V&A’, at the V&A Museum, London, UK from 22 July 
 2023.\n\nAbout Dhyandra Lawson\n\nDhyandra Lawson is the Andy Song 
 Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of 
 Art (LACMA). She is currently organizing the exhibition and publication 
 Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics (2025). This fall, 
 she is also co-organizing solo exhibitions with artists Judy Baca and 
 Vincent Valdez. Other LACMA exhibitions she has curated include Family 
 Album (2021), Eleanor Antin: Time’s Arrow (2019), and Richard Prince: 
 Untitled (cowboy) (2018). Recent publishing includes writing in the LACMA 
 publications Black American Portraits (2022) and Objects of Desire: 
 Photography and the Language of Advertising (2022). In addition to her 
 curatorial practice, Lawson is a Visiting Professor at Occidental College 
 and the California Institute of the Arts.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/05/16/18856093.php
SUMMARY:Artist Walkthrough: ‘Beyond Measure’ with Thomas J Price & Dhyandra Lawson
LOCATION:Hauser & Wirth\n901 East 3rd Street\nLos Angeles, CA 90013
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/05/16/18856093.php
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