Gracelee Lawrence

Lawrence’s work most often iterates as large-scale 3D-printed sculptures that vividly challenge traditional notions of materiality. Viewers ask: Are they really made of plastic? Are they really 3D-printed? Or put more directly, Lawrence’s work dares those in the room to ask simply, “How?” The more-or-less two-dimensional wall works collected for PrtScn begin to hint at the answer to these questions. Acrylic screens, rectangular and shiny as if harvested from a tablet, hold ultraviolet-printed images captured in screenshots directly from the sculptor’s intricate 3D rendering process. These digital, of-the-moment image harvests show the programs’ code in their churn and a 21st-century sculptor at work. Intimately scaled and held—naturally—in undulating 3D-printed frames, these gallery wall pieces are moments frozen in time, glimpses and glitches from behind the screens of larger, more physically embodied work.