Sanding away a years worth of sunsets
Lilly McElroy
Lilly McElroy is a mid-career artist and recent recipient of the Charlotte Street Studio Residency Program (2017-2019). The artistic projects she pursues are a reflection of her complex relationship with the American West and explores what it means to be an American in a time of diminished expectations. Her practice utilizes lens-based media and is highly concerned with the correlation between representation and reality as well as the medium’s ability to accurately convey information. Through these projects, she attempts to develop authentic ties to her own experiences, giving the cliché new and personal meaning.
The photographs, installations, performances, and videos that McElroy produces acknowledge the possibility of failure, that she will go unnoticed, and be unable to affect any change. However, it is this possibility that keeps things interesting for McElroy as she strives to face the sublime and call its power into question.
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