Max Hooper Schneider, Gallery Opening and Exhibition

Max Hooper Schneider, Lab Matters 2

Lab Matters 2 presents
recent works from the studio/laboratory of Max Hooper Schneider. The survey
marks the LA debut of Hooper Schneider’s life-sized glowing Beluga whale
skeleton cast from photoluminescent epoxy and brings together drawing, aquaria,
tapestry, collage, and photography. While the assembled works are diverse they
share a general thematics that foregrounds the agency of matter and
problematizes the border between art and science, natural and artifactual. The
result is a re-staging of the gallery space as a living system wherein works,
visitors, specimens and so forth interact in a performance of mutually
modificatory molecular movement and taxonomic confusion. Child friendly.