CARLA EDWARDS

Chaise for Ghosts, 2023, (Installation view), Night Gallery, Los Angeles.

Chaise for Ghosts (Inverse), 2023, welded aluminum, custom textile, cast tabby block, 39" x 91" x 33".

Chaise for Ghosts (Mirror), 2023, welded aluminum, custom textile, cast tabby block, 39" x 91" x 33".

Up a Rope, 2023, cast aluminum, rope, encaustic, 72" x 20" x 16".

Smoke, 2023, rope, encaustic, aluminum, flexible neon, 38" x 15" x 11".

Wild Friends, 2025, rope, encaustic, pigment, steel, cast concrete, brass finials, 78" x 20 x 40" .

Wild Friends, 2025, rope, encaustic, pigment, steel, cast concrete, brass finials, 78" x 20 x 40"

Good Work, 2024, cast iron, rope, encaustic, 16" x 13" x 18".

Nine to Five, 2025, rope, encaustic, pigment, aluminum, cast concrete, concrete rag, 21" x 12" x 36".

Don't Be Here, 2025, steel, rope, encaustic, pigment , 23" x 43" x 70".

Re-Rope, 2017, rope, encaustic, pigment, brass stanchions, (size variable).

Tight Under Skin, 2022, rope, encaustic, aluminum, flexible neon, 12" 48" x 30".

Micha'el, Michael, Mīkhā'īl, 2017, cast iron, limestone, 9”x 5”x12”. Micha'el, Michael, Mīkhā'īl, is a cast iron replica of a broken Saint Michael statue left at the site Gain and Cost, a public artwork at Socrates Sculpture Park. In this work, the public was invited to leave objects, “devotional or otherwise” over the course of nine months. The original plastic statue was offered with wings, sword and shield broken off, unknown as to whether its owner removed these out of distress, spite or despair. The two figures locked in struggle in the original plastic offering were exemplary of a tradition of racialized depictions of good and evil in commercial statuary. The title of this work is an incantation referencing the cross denominational saints’ inclusion in multiple spiritual texts as a protector with the ability to overpower dark forces.

MDC Windows (Installation View), 2022, The Heavy Light Show, Night Gallery, Los Angeles.

MDC Windows (Alpenglow), (Installation View), 2022, The Heavy Light Show, Night Gallery, Los Angeles.

MDC Windows (Municipal Block), 2022, cast aluminum, laminated glass, 49 3/4" x 17 3/4" x 10 1/2".

MDC Windows (No Tapping On Windows), 2022, cast aluminum, laminated glass, 49 3/4" x 17 3/4" x 10 1/2".

MDC Windows (incessant Florescent), 2022, cast aluminum, laminated glass, 49 3/4" x 17 3/4" x 10 1/2".

MDC Windows (Alpenglow), 2022, cast aluminum, laminated glass, 49 3/4" x 17 3/4" x 10 1/2".

MDC Windows (Insomnia), 2022, cast aluminum, laminated glass, 49 3/4" x 17 3/4" x 10 1/2".

If Portals Could Raise a Ruin, 2018, waterjet cut aluminum, 107”x 31”x156”.

If Portals Could Raise a Ruin, 2018, waterjet cut aluminum, 107”x 31”x156”. If Portals Could Raise a Ruin, is a site-specific commissioned work created for Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island. Sited at the entrance to the island, the archway is both ruin and folly, a nod to the Islands industrial history of brickmaking and the complex socio-economic factors that divide the island.

Gain and Cost (installation view), 2015, Socrates Sculture Park, Queens, NY. cast concrete, wood, steel, pigment. Gain and Cost, is a not yet directed public shrine. Over the course of nine months visitors to Socrates Sculpture Park were invited to participate in the artwork by leaving objects devotional or otherwise.