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Isabel Yellin: Mothership

Saturday, January 11–Sunday, March 30, 2025

Over the last decade, Los Angeles-based artist Isabel Yellin has earned a reputation for her sculptures made from fabric sewn into twisting, serpentine shapes evocative of the body. Mothership, her first solo museum exhibition, represents a new era in her work, aiming to give form to the defenses we build in and around ourselves to encase and protect our most vulnerable parts in the wake of profound loss. In a new series of abstract paintings and metal-and-silicone reliefs, Yellin reflects on her own experiences of trauma, loss, and grief, pairing her work for the first time with recently discovered paintings by her late mother, Anne Locksley.

Isabel Yellin: Mothership is curated by Weisman Museum director Andrea Gyorody in close collaboration with the artist. This exhibition is supported by a generous grant from the Pasadena Art Alliance.

Image: Isabel Yellin, Tiffany Bean, 2023, powder coated aluminum, silicone, ball chain. Image courtesy of the artist. © 2024 Isabel Yellin

Date

Saturday, January 11–Sunday, March 30, 2025

Tickets

Free

Venue

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

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Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

310.506.4851

Open Tuesday–Sunday, 11 AM–5 PM
and one hour prior to most shows through intermission

Free Admission