Admission:
$7 Adults;
$5 Seniors (65+) and UCLA Alumni Association Members with ID;
Free for Museum members, students with ID, UCLA faculty and staff, and visitors 17 and under accompanied by an adult;
Free on Thursdays for all visitors
Description:
Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer finds furniture, windows, mirrors, books, flooring, car parts, and other abandoned materials and reconfigures them to create large-scale sculptural environments that are like monuments to a forgotten past. Fischers use of these found materials is a commentary on the lifecycle of objects and how those discarded things will inevitably be reclaimed by nature. While his constructions contain an aura of melancholy and we feel the loss and the weight of the lingering presences of those who used these objects, the sculptures simultaneously acknowledge the possibility for transformation and regeneration. In Fischers work, decay is inextricable from rebirth. The notion of impermanence and recycling is paramount to the artists practice, and he often takes pieces apart and reuses the materials in other sculptures. For the Hammers Lobby Wall, Fischer recycles wooden floorboards from an old gymnasium to create a labyrinth-like mural that will extend off the wall.
This exhibition is organized by Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood.
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