OPENING: MEMORIZED

Cleo the Project Space is pleased to present Memorized, a two person show featuring the work of Marsha Mack and Jenny Lee. This exhibition is a reflection on memory, action, and motivation carried through generations, cultures and the female body.

Marsha Mack’s installations, which feature an extensive visual language through the vehicles of ceramics, glass, and found material, is an ode to the formation of identity through the lens of retrospection. The retention of trips to the Asian supermarkets that Mack frequented with her Vietnamese mother growing up in California is a central character in this work. Inspired by the decor of the shops and multitude of radiating designs on the packaging of her favorite snack foods, Mack sifts through the cultural implications of their marketing on her understanding of self. As a woman these implications are combined with coded soft signs, textures and colors to even further complicate her…