AJ Laas
Available Works
Biography
A graduate of Saint Martin’s in London, AJ Laas dismantles and evaluates the epidemic of despondency within society today. Living in constant fear of rejection or obsolescence, by man or machine, souls are forced to live inauthentically by investing vast amounts of their emotional selves for a proclamation that they neither subscribe to nor agree with.
Fascinated by gesture, both formally and philosophically, the work attempts to engage political discourse through metaphysical attrition and establish an aspect of autheticity in each scenario. Ultimately hoping to erode any notion of artifice through clarity of intention – the only real principal is that the work should have purpose outside of itself.
Education
BA, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010
MA, Central Saint Martins, 2018
Private Collections
Diageo HQ, Park Royal, London
Press
2019, Top 100 Artists, 2019 Edition, Aesthetica
2017, November Edition, A5 Magazine
Exhibitions
2019. Dear My Little Prince / Extended show – MoCa, Busan, Korea
2019. Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK
2018. Dear My Little Prince – K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2018. (H)AKT: Art & Haktivism – Ugly Duck, Tanner St, London
2018. Mayfair Fringe Festival – Mayfair, London
2018. Show One – Lethaby Gallery, Granary Square, London
2018. Coeval / Prototype – Artist led. Archway, London
2018. Overpr!nt – Museum Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière, Belgium
2018. Studio Complex – Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London
2017. Metaphors & Spaciality – Sichuan University Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2017. Speedball / Prototype – Artist led. Archway, London
2017. Postgraduate Art Auction, by Southeby's – Lethaby Gallery, London
2017. Visual Poetry – Black Stone Gallery, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
2017. Metaphors & Spaciality – Wuhouci Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017. Frameless / Prototype – Artist led. Archway, London
2017. Annihilation Event – curated by D. Rubinstein. Lethaby Gallery, Granary Square, London
2017. Somehow You and I Collide – curated by M. Hulson. The Laundry, London
2017. Annihilation / Prototype – Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London
2017. This Is An Art School – Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London
2016. Open Studio Show – Artist led. WAS, London