Sarah Miska Highlights a “Twist to strengthen” with Carla Edwards

Lyles & King is pleased to present Twist to strengthen, a two-person exhibition by Sarah Miska and Carla Edwards. The exhibition features paintings by Miska alongside fabric wall works and rope floor sculptures by Edwards. Connecting their practices is a fastidious approach to materials and an impulse to deliver incisive cultural critique. The show’s title Twist to strengthen,* can be read as a command or an action, referring to aspects of physical labor that are at times depicted or imbued within their works. Across Miska and Edwards’ work, there is a quietly foreboding sensibility, an interplay between domination and wildness, as well as a shared, distinctly American, visual lexicon.