Lavar Munroe*

Lot #52
Doll Babies, 2010-2021
Marker and pencil on paper
11 x 8.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist

About the Artwork

Lavar Munroe (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘18) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, creating hybrid forms that straddle the line between sculpture and painting. His work harnesses a broad range of visual references, drawing equally from literature, folk religious practices, folk celebratory practices, mythology, and the history of statues and memorials. Doll Babies is a work on an intimate scale, a page from Munroe’s diary. He notes, “I began this work in 2008, just after the catastrophic earthquake destroyed Haiti, killing an estimated 250,000 people. I revised and added color (and somewhat of a setting) to this diary entry in 2021 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Munroe was included in Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of The Swamp; the New Orleans triennial curated by Trevor Schoonmaker; the 12th Dakar Biennale in Senegal, curated by Simon Njami; and All the World's Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor as part of the 56th Venice Biennale. He is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.

Retail Value: $3,000