The Center for Emerging Visual Artists has announced ArtBox @ Lincoln Square is featuring a new installation by South Philadelphia artist Krista Dedrick-Lai.
The installation, titled A Wordless Plea to Unknown Hands, is on display now through August at 1000 S. Broad St. This installation uses a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture and fibers, to show connection with others in the face of fear and loss. This piece was made with her child Remy Lai, who contributed small sculptures crafted from gathered treasures.
Krista Dedrick-Lai is a multidisciplinary artist whose work confronts the everyday struggles of motherhood, domesticity and being human. Utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques, from painting and drawing to weaving together old clothes and found objects, the artist reveals, questions and normalizes the taboo brokenness of the every day. With a full range of bright neon to dark ominous colors, Dedrick-Lai negotiates the nonlinear space of healing and acceptance, perpetually carving out spaces of light in the dark, and determinedly making a way forward.
After earning her BFA from Tyler School of Art, she made Philadelphia her home and now lives just steps from the Italian Market with her husband and young son. In 2021 a poster she created for a project organized by Mural Arts and streets department was collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Solo exhibitions of her work took place in January 2024, at The Middle Room Gallery, in Los Angeles, and February 2024 at Chimaera Gallery, in East Falls. Threads of Transformation, a two-person show with artist Margaux McAllister, was on view at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens from May to July last year.
