DEBRA BROZ
FUR-NITURE
September 5, 2020 from 8-10pm
at High Beams
401 E. 12th St., Los Angeles, CA 90015
Track 16 presents new work by Debra Broz in High Beams, a one-night, outdoor exhibition being held on Saturday, September 5, 2020 from 8-10pm. Representing Track 16, Debra Broz’s installation Fur-niture shares new work that combines found furniture and thrift-store, stuffed animals. Through these sculpture, Broz considers the life of objects by asking what makes them status markers, and what makes them undesirable and “used.” She swaddles the trashed furniture with the used comfort objects, and within the transformation both objects become cared for again – even if it’s in a way no one expected, a way that’s not necessarily an improvement, just something different.
Staged on the rooftop of a parking garage in the Los Angeles Fashion District, High Beams visitors can “drive through” a curated collection of Bendix Building art establishments. Though car-free visitors are welcome, guests are encouraged to remain in their vehicles while experiencing the exhibitions.
High Beams will take place at Maple Plaza Parking Garage, 401 E. 12th St., Los Angeles, CA 90015 [map], which is across the street from the Bendix Building.
Event website:
www.highbeams.art
Bear Side Table (Fur-niture), 2020
37 x 41 x 28 inches
Secondhand stuffed toys on found furniture
VR TOUR
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Debra Broz began her love affair with unusual things while growing up in rural central Missouri. After receiving her BFA from Maryville University - St. Louis in 2003, she moved to Austin. There, she worked as a mixed media artist, ceramics restorer, and director of an art studio and gallery until late 2013, when she moved to Los Angeles.
In her practice, Broz collects and deconstructs ceramic figurines from thrift stores then seamlessly combines them into reimagined versions of their former selves. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Track 16, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Austin Museum of Art, and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Her work has been featured in print in Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, and Frankie magazines; and in two international surveys of contemporary ceramics. Broz’s work has also been featured online in the Huffington Post, Colossal, the Jealous Curator, and Apartment Therapy.
She currently lives and works in Los Angeles where she is an artist, ceramics restorer, and Co-Director of curatorial collective Monte Vista Projects.
