Industry City Open Studios

May 20 - May 21 noon - 6pm

"Your Vacuum Sucks," a film I made with Pieter Schoolwerth in 2015, is screening at the Whitney Museum this coming Sunday, January 15th at 3pm as part of "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016" exhibition curated by Chrissie Iles

St.Francis

2016

Digital print, plexi glass, ceramics, acrylic, hardware

Janus by Alexandra Lerman and Madeline Hollander

Open Sessions 6 at the Drawing Center      Organized by Nova Benway and Lisa Sigal Opening Thursday, November 12, 6-8pm          

Open Sessions 6 features the work of Amadeo Azar, Daniel Barroca, Youmna Chlala, Lea Cetera, Onyedika Chuke, Alexandra Lerman, Harold Mendez, Marcelo Moscheta, and Ronny Quevedo. Organized by the artists and Nova Benway and Lisa Sigal, Curators of the Open Sessions program. Amadeo Azar explores the interrelation between the visual languages of modernism with political and social movements in Latin America, and the way those Utopian moments were disrupted as they encountered local circumstances. Daniel Barroca works with memory and history. His projects map forces anchored by images, objects, words, historical figures, and ideas. Lea Cetera produces temporal installations that examine the mediation of technology and the alienation of the human body. Through recent installations that include filmed performances, the artist attempts to create an alienating/disorienting illusory effect. Youmna Chlala investigates architecture and fate. Her work is situated in places or bodies that translate themselves against or through an external world that is constantly trying to name them. Onyedika Chuke has been assembling an archive termed “The Forever Museum”—a collection of objects and images based on Internet-sourced documents that redistribute images and theories pertaining to civilizations, political rebellions, riots, and warfare. Alexandra Lerman proposes clay as a discursive medium. Her ink circulation drawings and "memory negatives" use copyrighted and patented systems to explore the complexities of contemporary body language and refer to the body located within institutional and natural environments. Harold Mendez draws upon ideas of absence and displacement to reference reconstructions of place and identity in the United States and Latin America, with a focus on how the past manifests in the present, and thereby trigger new inquiry. Marcelo Moscheta excavates the memories inscribed in the stone paths left by the ancient civilizations and uses GPS coordinates to draw his displacement over the surface of the planet. Ronny Quevedo traces culture through history, language, and mapping. Using a variety of forms from personal anecdotes to colloquialisms, coats of arms to store signage, games to modules, his work addresses concepts of displacement. Organized by the artists and Nova Benway and Lisa Sigal, Curators of the Open Sessions program.  

An Argument for Difference September 18 – October 25, 2015 Opening Friday, September 18, 6-9pm Screening Event: Monday, September 21st, 7:30pm at Microscope Gallery

TSA is pleased to present An Argument for Difference, a group exhibition curated by Yin Ho and Shama Khanna, featuring the work of Elizabeth Atterbury, Aya Fukami, Nicholas Hatfull, Lawrence Leaman, Alexandra Lerman,Marisol Malatesta, Janine Polak, and Jo-ey Tang.

I do not wish the audience to participate in my thing. – Yvonne Rainer

Amidst an increasing equivalence of experience shared online, we wish to argue for difference.

This exhibition emphasizes the volumetric encounter and seeks to preserve a state of individual, physical impression. By slowing responses to more surreal vocabularies, viewers hold their own perspectives. Many of the processes and references behind each drawing, sculpture, or painting displayed may not be easily read. That’s alright – needing to know falls outside scope.

My new Sumi ink on clay drawing fountain premiers tonight at The Drawing Center! 

Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-15

curated by Lisa Sigal and Nova Benway The Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street New York, NY 

SculptureCenter January 25 - April 13, 2015

In Practice: Under Foundations Opening January 24, 5-7pm

Immediate Release by Alexandra Lerman

Video piece "Your Vacuum Sucks" written by Pieter Schoolwerth, directed and filmed by me is playing at Gallery SKE in India as part of Pieter's show "My Vacuum Sucks." October 19th - December 7th, 2014

Above is an excerpt from "Your Vacuum Sucks" featuring Madeline Hollander.