Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present "Offline Perception," the gallery’s first exhibition with Berkeley-based artist Lucy Puls. "Offline Perception" gathers three bodies of work that Puls has been developing over the past decade: "Geometria Concretus" (2011-2015), "Accumulatus Verissime" (2016-2021), and "Delapsus" (2017-ongoing), all of which are on view in New York for the first time.
Puls’ largest works to date comprise the core of "Offline Perception." Entitled "Delapsus," these pigment ink on paper sculptures measure 130 inches tall and cascade off the walls in crumpled, shaped forms. Discarded objects—a punch bowl, tin dinnerware, a folding chair—pool on the floor in the tangled ends of the paper. Printed on the surface of each work is a chemically altered photograph of the interiors of foreclosed homes; their titles, such as Delapsus (Bedroom, Mirrored Closet Door, Mini Blinds, Movie Poster) and Delapsus (Family Room with Exposed Subfloor), illuminate what lies within the surface of the image. Puls manifests a friction between reality and memory as rendered through her complex material processes.
