REVEL HALL

AMELIA LOCKWOOD AND CHRIS LUX

Co-Curated by Alberto Cuadros

1832 Burnell St, 90065, LA, CA

By Appointment only.

Monday - Saturday | 12 - 6pm

Showing: March 3rd - March 24th, 2024

GGLA is pleased to present Revel Hall, an exhibition featuring Los Angeles-based artists Amelia Lockwood and Chris Lux, co-curated by Alberto Cuadros, and presented in a non-traditional setting within a dilapidated house on the west side of Los Angeles’ Mt. Washington.

Amelia Lockwood, floral axis, 2023, Stoneware and Glaze, 16 x 12 x 15 in. | Image Courtesy of The Valley Taos

Chris Lux, Flame Lamp, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, Epoxy, Powered Pigment, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 16 x 13 x 8 in.

Amelia Lockwood, blind-femina, 2023, Glazed Stoneware, 26 x 18 x 18 in. | Image Courtesy of The Valley Taos

Chris Lux, Help Lamp, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, Epoxy, Stained Glass, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 15 x 12 x 12 in.

Amelia Lockwood, round house, 2023, Glazed Stoneware, 40.5 x 21 x 21 in. | Image Courtesy of The Valley Taos

Chris Lux, Hidden Lamp, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, Epoxy, Lamp Shade, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 12 x 9 x 9 in.

Amelia Lockwood, udrangea, 2023, Glazed Stoneware, 32 x 15 x 16 in. | Image Courtesy of The Valley Taos

Chris Lux, Iridescent Lamp, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, Epoxy, Glass, Flocking, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 13 x 10 x 10 in.

Amelia Lockwood, fever bridge, 2023, Salt-Fired Stoneware, Glaze, 13 x 12 x 9 in. | Image Courtesy of The Valley Taos

Chris Lux, Olive Lamp, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, Epoxy, Stained Glass, Flocking, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 19 x 13 x 13 in.

Amelia Lockwood, fire-femina, 2023, Wood-Fired Stoneware, Glaze, 18 x 19 x 14 in. | Image Courtesy of The Valley Taos

Chris Lux, Orange Lamp, 2024, Resin, Newspaper, Raw Leather, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 16.5 x 11 x 11 in.

Amelia Lockwood, a ray, 2023, Wood-Fired Stoneware, Glaze, 23 x 19 x 5.5 in. | Image Courtesy of The Valley Taos

Chris Lux, Penny Bank Lamp, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, Epoxy, Glass, Pennies, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 14 x 9 x 8 in.

Amelia Lockwood, b ray, 2023, Salt-Fired Stoneware, Glaze 22 x 18 x 6 in. | Image Courtesy of The Valley Taos

Chris Lux, Teapot Lamp, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, Epoxy, Glass, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 12 x 15 x 12 in.

Chris Lux, Yellow Deco Lamp, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, Epoxy, Stained Glass, Electrical Cord, Lightbulb, 17 x 12 x 13 in.

Chris Lux, Pierrot Lunaire, 2024, Flashe on Silver Fabric, 48 x 37 in.

Chris Lux, Red Bowl, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, 4.5 x 7 x 6.5 in.

Chris Lux, Clock Fuck Bowl, 2024, Glazed Ceramic, 2.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 in.

REVEL HALL | INSTALLATION VIEW

GGLA is pleased to present Revel Hall, an exhibition featuring Los Angeles-based artists Amelia Lockwood and Chris Lux, co-curated by Alberto Cuadros, and presented in a non-traditional setting within a dilapidated house on the west side of Los Angeles’ Mt. Washington.

At 3206 Future St., works by Chris Lux and Amelia Lockwood cohabitate amongst barren studs and peeling floors, at times enmeshing themselves within their dusty surroundings and, in others, illuminating and providing levity and beauty to the house’s ramshackle state. In a stark reversal of the contemporary white cube gallery model, the house acts as a third collaborator, interspersing new narratives and providing a sense of added gravitas to the works by Lockwood and Lux.

Amelia Lockwood’s masterful ceramic works are an exploration of contrasts. Intentionally raw yet refined, Ornate flourishes and delicate latticework meld into leafy plant-like forms and upturned wings as architectural spaces give way to bodily and earthly forms. Temporally ambiguous, the artist’s sculptures simultaneously feel as if they’ve been exhumed from a medieval dungeon or designed for future communities in a more peaceful world. The artist’s earthy color palette speaks to the organic nature of the material used, embracing the toothy and textured consistency of clay as organic matter while providing intrigue through small hits of color that are interspersed throughout the work. Recently, the artist has taken to exploring atmospheric and experimental firing processes such as wood, salt, and soda firing, yielding incredibly blushed finishes that are impossible to reproduce. Within Revel Hall, we find the artist’s sculptures interspersed amongst the decaying space, each work vibrating with a suspended energy that resonates through the surrounding quietness. Heightening this strangely monastic setting, Lockwood’s ornate ceramics begin to assume the role of reliquaries – keepsakes and protectors of the unseen sacred and sentiments.

Working adeptly across mediums, Chris Lux creates paintings, drawings, sculptural works, and installations that collapse art history, building loose narratives using figuration and abstraction through which viewers are invited to weave their own references and narrative takeaways. Within Revel Hall, Lux’s works embrace light as a medium and means for communicating information, whether it be through sculptural lamps or stained glass. Using non-traditional means, the artist creates lamps from handmade ceramic pots, blown glass, epoxy, flocking, and other materials. The stained glass works use colored glass and epoxy clay tinted in various hues, which provide structure while interjecting Lux’s masterful handling of lines, using epoxy clay as a sculptural drawing medium. Employing the existing doorways as frames for site-specific stained glass works, some of which can be walked through as an entry to the space, the works bathe the insides of the space in a cathedral-esque constellation of colors, casting warm light on battered linoleum floors and works by Amelia Lockwood alike, all working in tandem to heighten the hallowed space at 1832 Burnell St.