In laub’s latest body of work, handmade ceramics, works on paper, glass blown sculptures, and
assemblages present themselves as fragmented manifestations of loss. A large ceramic vertebrae
erupts from the floor of the gallery with an ancient presence beyond human life. A bag of flesh
rots beside it, and a suicide cabinet offers a portal into another dimension. In a set of
archaeological drawings, laub excavates death by reviving the skeletal remains of animals that
have withstood the test of time. Yet fragility is woven throughout the works, working carefully
with tenderness to hold each piece together. With his hands, laub wrestles with the stories of life
at the brink of breaking, relentlessly embracing grief while life overflows, molds, and
evaporates. The glass fractures and the shatter crumbles, surrendering to a transformation larger
than life itself.
-iris yirei hu