Lauren Bon's "Bees and Meat" Opening at Ace Gallery

Lauren Bon's, Not a Cornfield Project, created quite a stir in the art community. Saturday night her new exhibit "Bees and Meat" is bound to generate more talk. Bon will fill the vast Ace Gallery with sculptural pieces created from honey, bees, and lamb carcasses.

The "Bees and Meat sculptures involve the following items:

90 miles of irrigation stripping
33,000 pounds of dried “Not a Cornfield” corn kernels
Two working wild hives and over 10,000 live bees
A 10’ x 3’ aquarium of honey
A dried lamb carcass fountain
21 cornstalk bales standing 9’ tall
A gallery of honey jar chandeliers
A library of honey
1200 totems bundled in wood, cotton, and twine
Beeswax sculptures
A working study covered in tar
A corn maiden sculpture
Two bronze tanks oxidized on a sea voyage from Shanghai to Los Angeles
1000 whispered fears
Over 6,480 hours of “Not a Cornfield” audio and visual surveillance
24-hour, streaming audio of living bees in the gallery
Transplanted earth

The opening reception is this Saturday night from 8-10pm.

ACE GALLERY LOS ANGELES
I N S T I T U T E O F C O N T E M P O R A R Y A R T

5514 WILSHIRE BLVD · LOS ANGELES · CALIFORNIA · 90036
TEL 323.935.4411 ·

photo by Botheredbybees via Flickr