Debbie Lawson presents a solo exhibition, "In a Cowslip's Bell I Lie," at Sargent's Daughters in New York, featuring her signature large-scale sculptures of life-size animals cloaked in ornamental Persian carpets. Using wire mesh, masking tape, and Jesmonite resin, she meticulously wraps each limb in carpet, creating the illusion that the animals have emerged from the textiles themselves. The show includes works such as "Wild Dog Sundown" (2025), "Red Eagle" (2026), and "Black Cougar" (2025), and draws its title from Shakespeare's *The Tempest*.
The exhibition matters because Lawson's work provocatively interrogates the boundaries between decoration and nature, craft and camouflage, while also addressing the gendered history of home life and textile art as "women's work." By embedding wild animals within decorative patterns, she highlights how craft—historically relegated below "high art"—has disrupted the art canon in recent decades. The show runs through May 30 in New York, offering a timely meditation on the tensions between domestic refinement and the wilderness.