Margot Samel and Kendall Koppe are delighted to present Light on Time, Laura Aldridge’s third solo exhibition with Kendall Koppe, Glasgow. Embodying a spirit of exchange and collaboration while expanding the dialogue between galleries and artists, the exhibition will be on view at Margot Samel, New York.
Laura Aldridge reminds us that meaning is created through linkages and associations. In her new series of wall-bound sculptures, presented by Kendall Koppe at Margot Samel, she deftly weaves together a politics of care, community, and sensory experience. A new group of light works, combining ceramics and textiles, accompanies an assortment of wedges, positioned like hour hands on a clock, bisected and balancing vibrant glass objects. These works push Aldridge’s instrumentalization of everyday materials further, commemorating their qualities and origins through a kind of costuming of the familiar. Dignified by their functionality, her works invite us to look anew at what surrounds us, making us feel at once estranged from, and more intimately attuned to, their individual material languages. There is a raw, open-ended narrative quality to Aldridge’s sculptures: each work offers a sentence, gently asking the viewer to pick up the thread.
–Anna Yates
Laura Aldridge (b. 1978) lives in Glasgow and works in Paisley, Scotland. She is a founding member of the Sculpture House Collective, Paisley. Recent solo exhibitions include: LAWNMOWER, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2024); sumVIGOUR, Cample Line, Cample (2021); #fromKStoyou, Kunsthalle Stavanger, Norway (2020 –2021); Indirect Sunlight – Laura Aldridge and James Rigler, New Gallery, London, (2018); Plant Scenery of the World, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2017); Go Woman Go!, British Council in Nigeria Season, Abuja, Nigeria (2016); Inside All My Activities, Koppe Astner, Glasgow (2016); One to another, one-to-one, Passerelle, Centre d‘art contemporain, Brest (2015); California wow!, Tramway, Glasgow (2015); Laura Aldridge, Studio Voltaire, London (2011). Selected group exhibitions include: Human Threads, Tramway, Glasgow (2022); The Outside is Inside Everything We Make, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2021); I am a Dependent Object, Biennale of Contemporary Art Brno, The Brno House of Art, Brno (2019); Perceptions, National Gallery of Kosovo, Museum Contemporary Art Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Museum of Contemporary Art, Macedonia (2018-2019); Things That Soak You, Kate MacGarry, London (2017); Diding – An interior that Remains Exterior, Kunstlerhaus, Graz (2015). Her works are held in the public collections of Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh and The British Council Collection, England.
