Lauren Halsey: The Roof Garden Commission Silkscreen Depicting two fragmented and intertwined

Depicting two fragmented and intertwined reclining nudes

The cloth hardcover is housed in a slipcase featuring the painting Fillette jouant avec une voiture (Paloma fond rouge) (1951) and the sculpture Petite fille sautant à la corde (1950)

appearing not only in artworks but also in a variety of products

the original figure was ingeniously composed of modeled plaster forms and a variety of found objects

but his work was not publicly exhibited until 2007

Lauren Halsey: The Roof Garden Commission Silkscreen Depicting two fragmented and intertwinedThis compact book documents Lauren Halseys the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I) (2022), the tenth commission to be featured on the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The monumental site specific work, which could be viewed on the museums rooftop and from Central Park, brings together the artists interests in ancient Egyptian and Afrofuturist iconography,