Louis Osmosis
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Artist statement
Working primarily in sculpture, installation, drawing and text, Louis Osmosis takes a speculative approach to form to interrogate systems of representation, duration, and performativity that enact contemporary culture. His practice revolves heavily around manufacture/craft and humor, incorporating fabrication and vernacular materials to muddy notions of genre and causality within the economy of objects. Deeply invested in dramaturgy, Osmosis’s sculptural objects operate as aspirational proxies that toggle between various affects and dispositions, while simultaneously extracting and re-staging an intrinsic lack within artistic production and cultural participation.
Artwork
- Sperm Count (Mascots), 2024. reinforced paper-mache, various foams, 3-D printed plastic, paper, steel, polyurethane, spray paint, shellac, artificial flowers, fabrics, adhesives, plywood, stanchions
- Centrifugal Pickle (Fly Trap) #1, 2024. reclaimed copper, lenticular print, toy airplane, artificial rose, plastic, spray paint, enamel paint, epoxy, wire rope
- deCan't Painting (Aspic), 2024. acrylic on drywall mounted on stretcher bars
- deCan't Painting (Hatchet), 2024. acrylic on drywall mounted on stretcher bars
- deCan't Painting (Meatier), 2024. acrylic on drywall mounted on stretcher bars
- deCan't Painting (Phlegmory), 2024. acrylic on drywall mounted on stretcher bars
- Small Mascot (Bridezilla), 2024. 3D-printed plastic, artificial flowers, wire, tulle, adhesive
- Family's Cadavatars, 2023. reclaimed mannequins, fibers, adhesive, acrylic paint, polyurethane, steel
- Small Mascot (Slippery Bastard), 2024. 3D-printed plastic, EVA foam, wire, epoxy, acrylic paint, adhesive
- Small Mascot (Butterface), 2024. 3-D printed plastic, steel, paper, shellac, adhesive
- Sunken Links/Linked Sinks, 2023. Reinforced paper-mache, polystyrene, cardboard, epoxy, silver leaf, acrylic paint, polyurethane, keyboard stands, mobile wall, vinyl wall text
- Companion (Hachikō), 2022. reinforced paper-mache, polystyrene, epoxy clay, acrylic paint, armature wire, MDF, plywood, PVC pipe, velveteen, metal studs, adhesive, medical gauze
- Satellite , 2020. plasma-cut satellite
- Shtick Figure, 2023. beaver chewed wood, threaded rod, steel epoxy, contact cement, rubber, stanchions
- Foreclosures (Silver's, Red's, & Grey's), 2024. reinforced paper-mache, polystyrene foam, spray paint, polyurethane, custom printed vinyl wallpaper, stanchions
- Chair with Pipe, 2024. vintage high chair, steel