🎭 Culture May 13, 2026 · Kate Mothes

Ornamental Carpets Release Wild Animals in Debbie Lawson’s Provocative Sculptures

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Ornamental Carpets Release Wild Animals in Debbie Lawson’s Provocative Sculptures
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Debbie Lawson is known for her large-scale sculptures of life-size animals cloaked in ornamental carpets. Starting with an armature of wire mesh, masking tape, and Jesmonite resin, she meticulously cuts and tucks Persian carpet around every limb, building a surface that looks unbroken. As if the animals have materialized from within the textiles and are temporarily frozen in a stage of metamorphosis, we encounter them on the verge of making a move.



In the artist’s solo exhibition, In a

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