Artists

Kaari Upson

Press release

Throughout the multifaceted work of Kaari Upson, the home and the body are persistent themes. From her earliest works from “The Larry Project” to her later series drawn from the contents of her childhood home in San Bernardino, California, the late artist delved into the rich connections between people and their domestic surroundings, both physically and psychologically and across familial generations. In latex, silicone, charcoal, paper and video, the body and its traces dissolve into the objects and architecture of the home, only to reappear again as fragments and uncanny presences that reverberate across Upson’s charged forms.