Upson''s first museum exhibition following her untimely death shows the range of an artist already well on her way to becoming a modern classic
At her untimely death from cancer in 2021 at the age of 51, Kaari Upson (1970-2021) was widely regarded as one of the most significant and versatile American artists of her generation with a practice spanning sculpture, drawing, performance, film and painting. Though her career was cut short, she left behind a rich, intense and strongly personal body of work that revolves around identity, body, sex, relationships, memory, illness and loss. Published on the occasion of the Louisiana-s retrospective exhibition, the catalogue comprises the Los Angeles-based artist-s most important works: from her dollhouses to The Larry Project, where she conducted something close to a criminological "investigation" of a person who once lived across from her childhood home in San Bernardino, California; her Mother-s Legs tre
