At The Momentary, Lucy Sparrow Transforms a Supermarket into a Felt Wonderland

The UK-based artist Lucy Sparrow is known for transforming seemingly ordinary spaces—supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants, to name a few—into felt wonderlands, celebrated both for tempting tactility and their technicolor allusions to childhood. What began as a nascent fascination with the material’s ease of use soon grew into a fine art practice, one that asks viewers to see the seemingly humdrum artifacts of daily life in a new, playful way.She first found success in 2014, wi