Liz Glynn: The Myth of Singularity

(Los Angeles—September 14, 2015) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Liz Glynn: The Myth of Singularity, a group of eight bronze sculptures created by the Los Angeles-based artist and on view for the first time. The series was produced from plaster props generated during Glynn’s performance The Myth of Singularity (after Rodin), which took place at LACMA in January 2013. Assisted by a group of ten sculptors, Glynn explored the process of replication, recombination, and shifts in material and scale which was often used by French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). The Myth of Singularity (after Rodin) inaugurated a cycle of five performances by Glynn entitled [de]-lusions of Grandeur, which unfolded in chapters at LACMA over the course of 2013. Glynn conducted extensive research on works in LACMA’s collection by Rodin, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, David Smith, and Donald Judd, and responded to the process of creating, moving, and erecting large-scale sculptures and the Herculean human efforts necessary to do so.