Show Two | 04.17.2026
Lillian Dent
PAINTING & DRAWING
Layers images, materials, and found objects in a playful, haphazardous, emotional synthesis that unsettles formal aesthetic hierarchies. She gathers things that possess a candied decay– creating connections between faintly devotional craft, everyday debris, and trashy scrap materials. Objects are often gendered and charged with material and cultural associations. Their collision points to the volatility of subject-object relationships and a fever-dream logic of making that is deviant and excessive.
Assemblages and paintings use dishevelment, corrosion, and fragmentation to consider tensions– between metal and fiber, softness and grit, kitsch and deterioration. Adhesives, resin, and plaster mimic that of cosmetic coatings and DIY aesthetics resist neatly polished craftsmanship techniques in pursuit of a more unruly and excessive process. The resulting bodies mobilize gurlesque poetics and reflect forms that are scrappy, ungovernable, and full of moxie.