Monica Wyatt Verified listing

I construct biomorphic assemblages from the overlooked materials of everyday life—zip ties,hairnets, electrical components, wire—fusing them into forms that challenge the boundaries between the organic and the manufactured.

My process is both experimental and intuitive, guided by the inherent qualities of the materials I use. A recent body of sculptural work emerged from an auction acquisition of thousands of steel sewing machine bobbins. When the retiring sewing supply company owner asked what I was going to do with them, I said, “I have no idea, but there’s something exciting there.” I allowed the materials to rest and accumulate a kind of dormant energy, until their formal possibilities revealed themselves—initiating a process of material exploration and transformation that defines my practice.

My art practice developed from a childhood spent building elaborate forts from the city dump’s foraged treasures,  a 20-year television producing career and the birth of my two children. I learned the joy of experimental creating from my physicist inventor dad and, as my making skills grew through deep material exploration, so did my biomorphic assemblage. I reimagine commonplace materials and explore themes that ignite my imagination:  themes about relationships, time passage, nature, motherhood, and secrets never told. My work encourages viewers to allow their imaginations to be jostled, to look, and look again at the re-envisaged compositions, perhaps catching reflections of their own stories.

Launch LA Gallery three-person show, “Re.iterate”, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

Solo Show, MorYork Gallery, “Monica Wyatt: C u r i o u s e r”, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, “Diverted Destruction 14: The Cal State LA Edition”, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

Solo Museum Show, “Monica Wyatt: Continuum”, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, 2018