Randy Kennedy on Pat Lasch
The New York Times
January 2017
“The New York sculptor Pat Lasch has spent her career making work that plays with the distinction between ordinary things and things belonging in museums: realistic-looking ball gowns made from dried acrylic paint; plaster eggs; towering decorative cakes fashioned from wood and paper.
“Ms. Lasch was an early member of the A.I.R. Gallery in SoHo (now in Dumbo, Brooklyn,) a pioneering cooperative for women. She has been in exhibitions at the SculptureCenter and P.S. 1 (now MoMA PS1) in New York, and was included in the influential Bad Girls show of feminist-inspired art at the New Museum in 1994. Her work often mixes the pleasurable with a political bite and wicked wit. A 1985 piece is titled Box of Poison Cookies for Past Lovers, and a 1981 work refers to a Middle Eastern princess who was stoned to death on orders of her grandfather.” – Randy Kennedy
