{"id":166766,"date":"2016-02-19T21:16:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T21:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lilycoxrichard.com\/staging\/2569\/?p=166766"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:38:31","slug":"stringer-lode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilycoxrichard.com\/staging\/2569\/stringer-lode\/","title":{"rendered":"Stringer Lode, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nShe Works Flexible<\/a> (Houston, Texas)
\n<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_font=”font-394499″ text_size=”h4″ uncode_shortcode_id=”150381″]Related Materials:<\/span>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_color=”color-jevc” uncode_shortcode_id=”324089″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]<\/p>\n

Press Release, PDF
\n<\/a>Essay: “On Whose Back” by Wendy Vogel, PDF<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_font=”font-394499″ text_size=”h4″ uncode_shortcode_id=”136046″]Notes:<\/span>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_color=”color-jevc” uncode_shortcode_id=”133568″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]<\/p>\n

My current projects focus on systems and networks that are ubiquitous yet often unnoticed: the electrical wiring and plumbing in the walls, the sprawling mycelium underfoot, and the goods created by cottage industries. I transform the guts of these systems, asserting their strength in formal terms by crafting buckets into columns, pallets into plinths, and baskets into niches. I am investigating histories of home-labor systems and newer iterations found in hacker-spaces, Etsy sites, artisanal food production, and urban mining, to explore relationships between ideas of American innovation and issues of precarity, gender, and class. In this work, I question the contours of value in the un\/seen forms that surround us, to engage issues of the similarly un\/seen labor of their construction.<\/p>\n


\nFrom the Press Release:<\/strong>
\nThese systems are successful in no small part because<\/em> they go unremarked; if most public acclaim is reserved for the loudest, the grandest, and the most exceptional, these networks assert the value of dispersion, interdependence, and restraint. So there\u2019s a twist to Cox-Richard\u2019s celebration of the overlooked: in rendering them visible, she subverts their natural assets. It\u2019s an irony echoed in the show title\u2019s allusion to mining: a stringer lode, unlike a concentrated mother lode, is a fine lacework of veins.\u00a0 To get at the ore a miner needs to demolish the countryside and sift the rubble. Delicacy, context and continuity fall prey to blunt, analytical differentiation. That sense of dislocation \u2013 of an object designed for connection newly isolated \u2013 gives Cox-Richard\u2019s sculptures their eerie potency. For Wattle and Daub<\/em> she sets plaster casts of woven baskets into the gallery wall, recessed like niches. Though they allude to practical handiwork and craft economies, their uselessness as receptacles implicates them in a very different system of evaluation.\u00a0 Their placement \u2013 a little too low, a little too close to a corner \u2013 likewise interrupts the typical function of the wall, both in terms of display and support.\u00a0 They are as much breach as sculpture.<\/p>\n

The carved columns in Cistern<\/em> depict stacks of five-gallon buckets repurposed for DIY mushroom cultivation. Many mycologists today believe that mushrooms can mitigate or even reverse damages inflicted on the environment by cleaning up pollutants, rehabilitating depleted soil, and growing renewable building materials. \u00a0Cox-Richard\u2019s floor-to-ceiling columns, though not in fact structural, embody that optimism, implying reinforcement and ascendant ambition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_font=”font-394499″ text_size=”h4″ uncode_shortcode_id=”132766″]List of Works:<\/span>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_color=”color-jevc” uncode_shortcode_id=”150419″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]<\/p>\n

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Wattle and Daub: wall and floor<\/strong>,<\/em> 2016 (gypsum cement, wall: 9 x 10 ft., object: 14 x 16 x 11 inches)<\/p>\n

Wattle and Daub: desk<\/em>,<\/strong> 2016 (gypsum cement, 42 x 96 x 45 inches)<\/p>\n

Wattle and Daub: above door<\/strong><\/em>,<\/strong> 2016 (gypsum cement, 23 x 41 x 28 inches)<\/p>\n

Cistern 1<\/em><\/strong>, 2016 (polymer concrete, epoxy putty, polystyrene, jacks, 109 x 15 x 15 inches)<\/p>\n

Wattle and Daub: cupboard<\/em><\/strong>, 2016 (gypsum cement, 109 x 40 x 6 inches)<\/p>\n

Wattle and Daub: rim<\/strong><\/em>, 2016 (gypsum cement, 14 x 14 x 1 inches)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_font=”font-394499″ text_size=”h4″ uncode_shortcode_id=”135494″]Credits:<\/span>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_color=”color-jevc” uncode_shortcode_id=”192243″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]<\/p>\n

Photography by Sharad Patel<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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