Kelly Lamb | Pomegranate Moon - Reserved Magazine

: Kelly Lamb Unchain, 2026 Neon, bronze, stainless steel. Photographed by @scardozaphoto.

: Kelly Lamb Celestial Chandelier, 2026 Neon, bronze, stainless steel, chain. Photographed by @scardozaphoto.

: Kelly Lamb, Sapphos Desire, 2026, digital display, polycarbonate and gold leaf. A honorarium to the oldest known Greek poet Sappho, who was a renowned lesbian and figure in the upper class at the time. The strolling text in my sculpture is an excerpt from the poem she wrote to Aphrodite about her unrequited love of her. Photographed by @scardozaphoto.

: Kelly Lamb, Reverse Cowgirl, 2026 Neon and bronze. Photographed by @scardozaphoto.

The textures and composited items that form Kelly Lamb’s Pomegranate Moon offer insight to her inner life as she expresses through alchemized objects. A celestial chandelier composed of neon, mirror, cast glass, and cast bronze fruit and shells all aid in telling her story. Across the space, sculptural elements extend the installation’s mythology, including a reclining female form with a video projection across its surface. The looping film shows Jame Rosenthal acting as muse, lounging and eating fruit in quiet intimacy, relaxed and unbothered. Additional wall-mounted sculptures include a bronze shell pierced by a neon rod, a pomegranate struck by an arrow, and a conch shell from which a female figure crawls outward.

: Kelly Lamb, Everything, 2026 Ceramic. A cast ceramic female hand, outstretched with an offering of a sliced silver lemon… lemons, symbolizing, purity, cleanliness, optimism, vitality. In witchcraft, lemons are used in banishing spells. I wanted to conjure the magical world, one where humans & nature co-create, the silver lemon with it vaginal slice, open and vulnerable being presented as a gift an offering a precious object. Photographed by @scardozaphoto.

: Kelly Lamb, Pomegranate Moon, 2026 Neon, bronze. Photographed by @scardozaphoto. About mythic roles assigned women & what would happen if the fruit is no longer forbidden, the muse no longer sacrificed, and the story no longer held together by female consequence or exploitation… Co-creation with nature and getting back to syncing cycles with the moon. The Pomegranate itself, being a powerful cross cultural, and mythological symbol of abundance and fertility… The fruit a luscious red, aligned with love,lust, and blood… “Reverse Cowgirl” Female sexual empowerment & wanting to be the reverse of the current cowboy/ cowgirl culture that’s happening these days

: Kelly Lamb, Spirtualized, 2026, bronze and neon. A cast bronze bird, that flew into my window & died just after my father passed. Photographed by @scardozaphoto.

: Kelly Lamb, Waves, 2026, bronze. Cast seashells collected from all over the world… Shells symbolizing rebirth, the divine feminine, the ocean/ unconscious… the neon is a metaphorical & metaphysical intervention of life& light Nature vs. commercialization Female vs. man Female vas technology Man vs. spiritually Vibes. Photographed by @scardozaphoto.

The exhibition draws on a long lineage of mythological symbolism, particularly the role fruit has played in narratives surrounding women and fate. References echo throughout the work, from Eve and the knowledge that birthed sin, to the apple of discord that sparked the Trojan War, and the pomegranate seed that bound Persephone to the underworld. Shell imagery recalls the mythic birth of Venus, invoking sexuality as both eroticized and weaponized. Throughout history, the muse has been both revered and punished, celebrated as inspiration while often stripped of autonomy.

: Photographed by Juice Caballero.

: Photographed by Juice Caballero.

Pomegranate Moon proposes a rupture with these inherited myths. By subverting familiar symbols and presenting women who consume fruit without shame or spectacle, the installation dismantles the moral scaffolding of ancient narratives. The work ultimately asks what remains when women refuse the roles assigned to them, when the fruit is no longer forbidden, the muse no longer sacrificed, and the story itself no longer relies on female consequence. Curated by Margot Ross.

The exhibition opened with a public reception during Frieze Week Los Angeles at Gallery 33 in collaboration with Show Gallery at the Georgian. In celebration of her works, Reserved Magazine joined in hosting a night of drinks, friends, collaborators, and music featuring a soundtrack by DJ Pretty Gay Friendly. photographed by