OCHI is pleased to present The Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine, a two-person exhibition bringing together Molly Larkey’s floor sculptures and Caitlin Lonegan’s oil paintings. On view at OCHI Los Angeles from July 11 through August 22, 2026, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 11 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
The exhibition takes its title from Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto,” which argues for a feminism grounded in hybridity and the productive entanglement of the human with the non-human. Haraway’s cyborg refuses categorization: it is neither purely organic nor purely mechanical, neither one thing nor another. Larkey and Lonegan share a related sensibility, making work that resists fixed reading and rewards sustained attention. Larkey’s slender vertical sculptures, each titled Cyborg and constructed from steel, stucco, and acrylic paint, stand in the room like figures, shifting between figure, fossil, and geometric structure without settling on any one. Lonegan’s paintings are built slowly from close observation, layered with iridescent pigments mixed with ground mica that catch and shift with the viewer’s movement. Both practices reveal themselves over time rather than declaring a fixed identity.
