Laurie Frick's 'Sleep Patterns' Exhibition at Edward Cella Art + Architecture in Los Angeles

Laurie Frick's exhibition 'Sleep Patterns' marks her West Coast debut at Edward Cella Art + Architecture in Los Angeles, running through April 2, 2011. The Austin, Texas and New York City-based artist presents wall-based relief assemblages alongside a site-specific installation titled 'Bumpy World.' Frick utilizes found wood fragments and eyeglass trays, materials she first encountered during a residency at Omaha, Nebraska's Bemis Center. Her compositions loosely follow and randomly transgress grid structures, with the arrangement of bumps and hollows actually mapping neural pathways observed during sleep. The artist, who also serves as associate publisher of artcritical, creates work that evokes urban sprawl through her manipulation of materials. 'Bumpy World' measures approximately 20 by 15 feet, consisting of wood pieces from found eyeglass trays that are cut, assembled, and adhered to both wall surfaces and the floor. Edward Cella Art + Architecture, located at 6018 Wilshire Boulevard, specializes in architectural drawings, providing a fitting context for Frick's exploration of spatial patterns. The exhibition connects her earlier collage work mimicking city maps with her current investigation of biological systems, suggesting unconscious parallels between urban development and neural activity.