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    Edgar Arceneaux
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    • The Crystal Palace
      2010
      Metal shelving blocks, partially burnt cardboard boxes, sugar crystals
      Overall dimensions variable, approximately 98 × 25 × 104 inches each

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • The Algorithm Doesn’t Love You, From Detroit to Shanghai
      Installation view: Shanghai Biennial (2014)
      2010

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • The Gods of Detroit
      2010
      108 x 68 inches each
      Clay, charcoal, enamel on unstretched canvas

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • The Slave Ship Zong
      2011
      Acrylic, graphite on paper
      80 × 130 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      Photo: Robert Wedemeyer

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • Detroit Monolith, It's Full of Holes
      2011
      Acrylic, graphite on paper
      72 × 129 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      Photo: Robert Wedemeyer

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • Blind Pig #8
      2011
      Charcoal, graphite on paper
      90 × 156 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • Blind Pig #5
      2011
      Acrylic, graphite on paper
      90 × 156 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • Blind Pig Industry
      2011
      Acrylic, graphite on paper
      91 × 161 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • A Time To Break Silence
      2013
      Single-channel HD video with color and sound
      1 hour and 4 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • King Vanitas, First Stage: Mirror, Mirror on The Wall (The Bullfrog’s Liturgy of the Eucharist)
      2014
      Glass, mirror, enamel, framed in poplar
      26 × 20 × 4 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • King Vanitas Second Stage: When Objects Become Things, Two Placemats
      2014
      Wrought iron, glass, enamel
      16.25 × 44.25 × 24.75 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • King Vanitas, Third Stage: When Things Become Relics (To Each Below, The Above, 1968)
      2014
      Enamel on silk, aluminum
      38 × 27 × 2.50 and 32.25 × 21.50 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions
      Installation view: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
      2014

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • A Nobel Prize and a Bible
      2014
      Seven parts: painting on mirrored glass, handcrafted steel frame and red and green light bulbs
      107.95 × 591.82 × 3.81 cm

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • A Time To Break Silence: The Trading Futures Constellation
      2014
      Single-channel HD video with color and sound, books, crystallized sugar, vitrine, monitor
      1 hour and 4 minutes, 60.50 × 59.50 × 20.75 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • A Number of Intersections (A Collision of Belief Systems #1)
      2015
      Graphite, colored paper, tape, on vellum
      38.75 × 37.75 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      Photo: Jeff McLane

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • A Number of Intersections (A Collision of Belief Systems #2)
      2015
      Graphite, colored paper, tape, on vellum
      38.75 × 37.75 inches

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      Photo: Jeff McLane

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • Until, Until, Until…
      2015
      A Performa Commission

      Courtesy of Performa

      Photo: © Paula Court

    • Library of Black Lies
      2016
      Wood, mirrored glass, mylar, newspaper, hardbound books, sugar crystals, lighting fixture, audio component
      16 × 16 × 9 feet

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

    • Library of Black Lies
      2016
      Wood, mirrored glass, mylar, newspaper, hardbound books, sugar crystals, lighting fixture, audio component
      16 × 16 × 9 feet

      Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

      © Edgar Arceneaux

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