LISA LAPINSKI, BONJOUR FUEL
APRIL 12 – JUNE 1, 2025
Froebel’s gifts and Montessori and Waldorf learning materials.
Children’s toys from the Soviet Union, especially lunchboxes and children’s sewing machines.
Olive branches for a procession.
An homage to foundational learning in general but one that suggests foundational learning is not set and is always changing.
Generation Z’s disconnect from all previous generations, as discussed in Bernard Stiegler's 2008 philosophical text Taking Care of Youth and the Generations.
The project began in response to a sculpture my daughter made when she was sixteen, but it quickly began to morph into a world composed of child-like things, as if my response to her teenage-self was a retrospective environment for her child-self or for my child-self.
Bonjour Fuel is the name of a gas station across the street from Barbecue Inn in North Houston. I like this corner. When we first moved to Houston, I told my at-the-time eight-year-old daughter if you stayed at Barbecue Inn, they would slather you with BBQ sauce as you slept. She thought it was so funny when she realized it was a joke. It was about the same time I was beginning to understand Houston’s special relationship to Surrealism, which is very different than Los Angeles’s, where we had moved from.
Everything in the classroom is neatly put away for the day. Either a lot of activity has just happened, or it is about to.
Lisa Lapinski (b. 1967, Palo Alto, CA) lives in Houston. Recent solo exhibitions include Snoopy Mitosis, Sylvia’s Sculpture Garden, Houston, Holly Hobby Lobby, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, and Drunk Hawking, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, which produced her 2024 monograph Lisa Lapinski: Miss Swiss. She was one of six artists included in Six Scenes for our Future, Contemporary Art Museum Houston’s seventy-fifth anniversary exhibition in 2023. She received her BA from University of California, San Diego, an MFA from Art Center College of Design and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Rice University. Lapinski was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.
Clockwise from door:
Lisa Apple 2, 2025
Wood, paint, photocopies, metal frame
20 5/8 x 30 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches
La Conecta Pink, 2025
Colored Plexiglas and painted frame, archival digital print, wood and paint
68 x 39 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches
Untitled (from Linz Wedding Song Series), 2008
C-print mounted on Sintra, wood supports
75 1/4 x 90 x 14 inches
Abacus, 2025
Wood, paint, concrete, casters
6 x 73 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches
Lisa Apple 1, 2025
On wall: graphite and colored pencil on paper, frame, 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches
On floor: wood, paint, photocopies, and casters, 3 3/4 x 12 8 3/4 inches
Shoe Fitting Stool (Jockeys), 2025
Wood, rubber, paint, fabric, and foam
15 x 28 x 9 1/4 inches
La Conecta Yellow, 2025
Colored Plexiglas and painted frame, archival digital print, wood, olive branches, leather
51 x 31 x 17 inches
Untitled or the Chalcedon Definition, 2025
On wall: wood and paint, 16 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches
On floor: wood, paint, concrete, casters, 5 1/2 x 44 x 6 inches
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