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LAtimer Leah Ollman on Kristen Morgin's first solo at Marc Selwyn Fine Art:

The car brings to mind the musty, emotionally searing assemblage tableaux made in the 1960s by Bruce Conner, George Herms and Edward Kienholz (especially his "Back Seat Dodge '38"). In Morgin's work, though, human presence is never explicit but implied, and rather than recycle detritus from the world above ground, she creates her objects from scratch, from the rawest of the Earth's raw materials.

Objects from scratch are the new found objects--you can almost smell the next Art Basel Miami.