Warhol's 32 Campbell Soup Cans, first exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1962, are exemplary in this instance. Following Warhol, but not in the Pop-vein, are figures such as Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and John Coplans, all of whom are important precedents for Lazzarini's work. Thematic content Though Lazzarini's sculptures court the matter-of-fact to a great extent, this does not mean that they do not bear undercurrents of an often darker thematic content. One of the artist's earliest series of works, the "studio objects" (2000), stand as shorthand representation of the artist's studio with its implications of artistic introspection and, considering the objects' distortions, suggestions of derangement and madness. The skulls, exhibited at the Whitney in 2001, carry a host of allusions to mourning, melancholy, death and memory. The guns, knives, and brass knuckles are more explicitly related to potential acts of violence while Lazzarini's recent print series, blood on wallpaper (2009–2010) conjures the aftermath of such acts. Installations Lazzarini's installation "skulls" was first exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art in the 2001 exhibition, "Bitsreams," and brought the artist into wider public visibility. The installation was made up of four sculptural variations based on a specific human skull, each mounted to one wall at eye level in an offset square room measuring fifteen by fifteen feet. Bathed in diffused fluorescent light, the shadows within the room heightened the works “image aspect” where “the walls of the gallery become a kind of uninflected visual field against which the form of each object is defined.” The experience presented a new type of embodied viewing wherein “You feel the space around you begin to ripple, to bubble, to infold, as if it were becoming unstuck from the fixed coordinates of its three-dimensional extension. You soon become disoriented, as this ungluing of space becomes more intense.” The intensification of the works' figure/ground relationships was brought to a new level with the installation of "guns and knives" at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, which marked the first time that Lazzarini altered the physical space of the gallery to heighten the viewer's sense of disorientation. Awards 2015 Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC. 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship, Sculpture 2003 American Academy of Arts and Letters, May 1986 New York Foundation for the Arts, Visual Arts Grant, June 1985