Breaking laws of perception

Let’s address artist Gay Outlaw’s name first: It is brain-explodingly good. Next, let’s address Outlaw’s sculptures: same conclusion.

Her abstract pieces play with dimensionality and challenge the viewer’s perceptions in the most welcoming of ways. She constructs geometric objects, such as cubes, and cuts signature elliptical holes into them. Or does she? On closer inspection, these “holes” are often photographs pasted onto the surface of the sculpture. Studying her work makes the brain feel like it’s unfolding from being a semi and turning into Optimus Prime.

Be the transformation at her exhibition The Velocity of Ideas.