Layla Luna: I Saw Nobody Coming, So I Went Instead

LAYLA LUNA I SAW NOBODY COMING, SO I WENT INSTEAD Nov 17, 2017–Jan 7, 2018

Layla Luna I Saw Nobody Coming, So I Went Instead Exhibition Checklist

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Cavnar Gallery 01.

Snail Shells #4, 2016 Wood, Flashe paint, canvas, brass disc, brass nails 23 x 16 x 1 3/4 inches

02. Collection Day (Snail Shells), 2016

Collage, colored pencils, snail shells,

map pins

13 1/8 x 10 ¼ inches 03. Juniper Berries, 2016

Juniper berries, plaster, wood

24 x 15 x 1 inches 04. Curio Collection, 2016-7

Mixed media

dimensions variable 05. Love Note Companion, 2016

Flashe paint, plywood, plexiglass

12 x 10 x 1 ¾ inches 06. Five Years of Lucky Pennies, 2017

Acrylic and found pennies

21 x 53 x 1 ¼ inches (overall)

21 x 11 x 1 ¼ inches (each) 07. Clouds, 2016

Mixed media

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08. Constellation, 2017

Mixed media

8 ½ x 8 ½ x 2 inches 09. Mother, 2016

Collage and gesso

15 x 48 x 6 inches 10. Preserving the Creases, 2016

Sandpaper and plaster

8 ½ x 14 ¾ x 1 ¾ inches 11. A Love Note to Sandpaper, 2016

Sandpaper, pastel, flashe paint, plexiglass 8 x 6 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches 12. White Collection, 2016

Plywood, gesso, graphite, plexiglass

11 x 12 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches 13. It Takes Time to Form an Object, 2016

Pine, acrylic, found materials

14 1/2 x 8 x 1 3/4 inches 14. Savage/Refined Collection, 2017

Collage and mixed media

13 1/2 x 9 x 1 3/4 inches 15. Blue Collection, 2017

Plywood and flashe paint

13 3/4 x 37 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches

With the mixed media works of I Saw Nobody Coming, So I Went Instead, Layla Luna explores personal histories through personal collections. Building her own collections to document time and create stories in a pro-active manner, Luna questions our reasoning for holding on to objects and creating our own collections and displays of those items; is it the object its self or the haunt of the memory tied to the object?

Layla Luna was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975. She received an MFA in Painting from Texas Christian University in 2016 and a BFA in Painting from Arizona State University in 2008. She studied at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand where she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art in 2011. Currently, Luna resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Layla Luna, It Takes Time to Form an Object, 2016 Major support for Lawndale Art Center programming is provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc., the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation, Houston Endowment, the John P. McGovern Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and The Wortham Foundation, Inc.

Lawndale Art Center 4912 Main Street Houston, Texas 77002

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