from Gabriel Craig’s review on Art Jewelry Forum
“In Lauren Kalman’s works there is little restraint, unless of course we are talking about actual physical restraining devices. The works on show in her new exhibition, Coveted Objects, continue in the artist’s tradition of making beautiful objects and well-composed photographs that augment the body and depict sexually suggestive scenes that border on the grotesque. Coveted Objects is a selection of works from Kalman’s current body of work, But if the Crime is Beautiful…, and is the first exhibition in a new series of Detroit-based artists and Cranbrook alumni that Cranbrook Art Museum curator Laura Mott will roll out in the coming years.”
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