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Los Angeles Times
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Deborah Vankin

How artist Laurie Kang 'misuses' material to create tactile, carnal installations

LOS ANGELES — Blood, sweat and snot — and Dior Backstage Eyeshadow Palette in neutral tones.

These are the images that rushed to mind, unfiltered, upon stepping into Laurie Kang's art studio the other day.

The Toronto-based Kang is the inaugural artist-in-residence at Horizon Art Foundation, a new downtown L.A. nonprofit nurturing emerging and midcareer artists from around the globe. Horizon provides artists — four a year for up to three months each — with working and living spaces in L.A. as well as a stipend.

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