ARTE: Heavy Rain and Lightning

Andy Robert has a public art installation on view now until January 31st at Full Haus in Los Angeles.

For Heavy Rain and Lightning, Andy Robert will turn Full Haus’s backyard into a sculpture park. 

Robert’s sculptural work evokes places. This happens through found materials, words, as well as a sensitivity to the way a place can evoke another place. Through the overlapping of space and histories, Robert reflects on how people live in different locations. Some of these reflections, as in a discarded umbrella, focus on the quotidian. Others, skittles on concrete, refer to specific events that have unmistakable political dimensions.

In either case, Robert’s sculptures are poetic—at times lyrical, and at times concrete. It’s more like what Magritte did for the hat.

Heavy Rain and Lightning is Robert's first public art installation in Los Angeles.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

—Langston Hughes, Harlem, 1951