OUTER SPACE is happy to announce the opening of Elizabeth Layton & Skuja Braden: Lines That Hold, Forms That Remember.
OPENING THIS SATURDAY OCT. 4th, FROM 5-8, WITH A SPECIAL LECTURE BY DON LAMBERT STARTING AT 4PM.
Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton (1909–1993), was an artist from rural Kansas who began her drawing practice in 1977 at 68 years old, after a suggestion from her sister to pick up a creative practice. With her unique hand, line, and treatment of space in her work, she fine-tuned her craft through repetitive contour line drawing. This process enabled her to express her deepest thoughts and feelings about her personal life, relationships, body, identity, age, memories, and experiences; as well as her liberal socio/political leanings concerning sexism, racism, ageism, the oppression of LGBTQIA+, censorship, and the well-being of the mentally ill, disabled, poor, and oppressed. All topics that are still relevant and at the forefront today. In doing so, she claimed that her art making practice cured her of her lifelong debilitating depression, a feat that no medication or shock treatment she had previously received ever had. During these 16 years of prolific art making, Elizabeth Layton went from an unknown artist only to a nationally recognized one with a brilliant voice. Major museums and institutions began collecting her work including The Art Institute of Chicago, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Detroit Institute of Arts, Hammer Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, St. Louis Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and numerous other prestigious collections. Her life culminated with a major retrospective at The Smithsonian Museum and glowing reviews nationwide
Outer Space is beyond grateful to Elizabeth’s family and friends, Don Lambert, Judy Cross, Carla Russell, Steven Layton, and Anne Willis for enthusiastically participating in the making of this exhibition. It’s been such a joy befriending and working with you.
This exhibition is dedicated to Grandma.
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