Adrienne Outlaw builds through acts of connection. Her sculptures and participatory installations ask what actually supports us and what responsibilities arise from our dependence on one another and the living world.
Working with discarded materials, especially post-consumer plastic, Outlaw constructs assemblages through accumulation, suspension, and balance. From pointillism to pixels, individual elements combine into fields of color, texture, and form while remaining visible within the whole. Her use of plastic questions the convenience of a material whose consequences extend far beyond its usefulness.
Across her expanded practice, Outlaw creates opportunities for people to make and experience art together. Her studio sculptures test the forces that hold things together, while large-scale installations become places to enter, gather, and encounter one another. Color and light draw people in, making connection felt in the body.