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Ellen Schafer, Animal Pals (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Simplicity (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Lemons (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Lemons (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Lemons (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, More Pleasure (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, More Pleasure (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Double Chop (2018). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Three’s Company (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Three’s Company (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Simplicity (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + The Fulcrum, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Usual Suspects (1) and (3) (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + The Fulcrum, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Love Life (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + The Fulcrum, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Love Life (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + The Fulcrum, Los Angeles.
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Ellen Schafer, Love Life (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + The Fulcrum, Los Angeles.
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Art, play & a perpetual seat at the kids’ table in the tongue-in-cheek installations of Ellen Schafer

, 2 August 2021
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Simplicity, a solo exhibition by Ellen Schafer, is on at Los Angeles’ New Low and The Fulcrum galleries, running 27 June to 22 August.

Ellen Schafer, More Pleasure (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + New Low, Los Angeles.

With slogans written in bubble letters, heart shaped balloons and childlike aesthetics, Schafer presents a sardonic reflection on the ongoing state of play in contemporary art making, and its blurring of leisure and work. As stated in the press release, the artist is “creating an imaginary place for herself in the “art world,” while also maintaining a perpetual spot at the kids’ table.”**

Ellen Schafer’s Simplicity is on at New Low and The Fulcrum, Los Angeles, running 27 June to 22 August, 2021.

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