Art News

George Billis Gallery presents a new installation by Santa Monica-based artist Maddy LeMel

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Suspended States, the acclaimed new installation by Santa Monica-based assemblage and sculpture artist Maddy LeMel is in its final weeks at the George Billis Gallery LA (2716 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90034). The exhibition, which is in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, runs through January 2 (Dec. 24-Jan. 2 by appointment only, call the gallery at 310-838-3685). LeMel, who has been called a “scavenger poet,” is known for mixed-media constructions incorporating found objects that are reclaimed and given second lives in pieces created with wire, screen, thread, paper, metal fragments, and a deft articulation of light and space. LeMel’s new pieces for Suspended States are wire and metal cages containing vintage tools from the artist’s extensive collection. The tools exist almost as anthropomorphized characters, contemplating escape through the openings in each cage. C