Join us for the debut of a new sculpture installation by Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. Clayton and Lewis are Laumeier’s 2023 Visiting Artists In Residence, and this collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their work in sculpture, performance, and multi-media installation. With playfulness and humor, they explore interconnectivity and tension within the human-nature relationship, often with a focus on the balance between the individual and the collective.

For Laumeier, they’ve created a new work titled Twenty-Nine Tragedies, a series of aluminum kite shaped sculptures embedded into a lone poplar tree in Laumeier’s Way Field. The tangled web of color, shape and string imparts a sense of humor central to Clayton and Lewis’ practice and expresses amusement, creativity, and the intersection between us and the natural world

The opening is free to attend.