Cristina Lei Rodriguez

From Time Out: New York:

"If you didn’t get enough of the latest in funky new sculpture at the New Museum’s “Unmonumental” show, you’re in for a treat with Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s debut solo exhibit at Team Gallery. Her outsize assemblages employ seemingly discarded materials, just like Isa Genzken’s colorful, haphazard pieces—only Rodriguez uses artificial foliage and paint to evoke a tropical forest gone haywire.

“Overrun” is a series of treelike sculptures, the largest of which are 12 feet tall; they’re coated in several layers of vibrant epoxy paint and shiny plastic jewels, including hanging strands of gold chains. Another group, “Contained,” consists of six Plexiglas boxes installed on a wall, each filled with fake ferns and other plants. From a distance, the cases look like toxic terraria, but on closer inspection, it’s easy to identify their phony nature."

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