# Edgar Arceneaux inOut of the Ordinary: Uncommon Materials, Marks, and Matrices

URL: https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/edgar-arceneaux-out-of-the-ordinary-uncommon-materials-marks-and-matrices/
December 21, 2024 — April 6, 2025 · Hammer Museum

Edgar Arceneaux’s work is included in the exhibition *Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Materials, Marks, and Matrices* at the Hammer Museum on view through April 6th.

The exhibition explores contemporary artists’ use of unusual mark-making devices, including blood, smoke, Kool-Aid, coffee, scrap metal, vegetable juice, pins, dryer lint, and more, to create drawings and prints. With works drawn largely from the collection of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, *Out of the Ordinary* examines artists’ wide-ranging motivations for choosing such unorthodox media, from sensory play and experimentation to excavations of the charged historical and symbolic values of mundane substances.