Exhibition Opening Reception – Lily Cox-Richard: Berm

Please join DiverseWorks for the exhibition opening reception for Lily Cox-Richard: Berm. Cox-Richard’s new sculpture installation inventively challenges social and material hierarchies related to labor, craft, and natural and man-made environments. The artist will be in attendance.

Inspired by the concept of the berm, a term that refers to an artificially raised bank or ridge that may serve as a fortification line or a separation barrier, Cox-Richard’s new sculptures use reclaimed materials, crafted objects, and the space around them to push up against institutional frameworks and existing architecture to explore modes of viewing, perspective, and accessibility. Within the installation, concrete aggregates made from old bricks, oyster shells, and other debris have been ground down by the artist to reveal other facets of embedded structural systems.