Alexandra Grant on Art in LA, the Love House, and the Smell of Jasmine
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/alexandra-grant-my-la_n_921381.html
Alexandra Grant is 2011 California Community Foundation Mid-Career Artist
my.calfund.org/artist-gallery/gallery/year-2011/alexandra-grant/
Torrance Art Museum, Baker’s Dozen, July 16 – August 27, 2011
Watts Towers by Shana Nys Dambrot
Asking tough questions about community projects
www.artltdmag.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1310060516&archive&start_from&ucat=28
Keanu Reeves’ Ode to Happiness
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13838742
How Keanu Reeves Cheered Up
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/15/keanu-reeves-ode-to-happiness
Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant at Waterstone’s Picadilly, June 18th
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE1DtuIZjDs
Ode to Happiness on ArtinAmerica.com
On Lipsticktracez: Alexandra Grant, the Wordsmith
http://lipsticktracez.com/features/feature/105/1
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection
BCAM, Level 2
March 13, 2011–July 4, 2011
www.lacma.org/art/ExhibHuman.aspx
Author & Artist Talk: Ode To Happiness
Sunday, February 13, 4pm
Art Catalogues Bookstore, Ahmanson Building, LACMA
Please join us to celebrate the release of Ode to Happiness, an artist’s book created by painter Alexandra Grant and actor Keanu Reeves, published by Gerhard Steidl. The artist and author will talk about their collaboration and the ideas of translation, melancholy, and friendship that inspired the book.
www.lacma.org/programs/Lectures.aspx#1283969587055
Image: © Alexandra Grant
Artists and their books
February 7th, 7pm, LACMA
www.lacma.org/programs/lectures.aspx#1283969369699
X-TRA MAGAZINE’S 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE
February 28th, 7pm, Creative Artists Agency
www.x-traonline.org/1IMAGE1MINUTE_2011.php
California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art
October 24, 2010 – March 13, 2011
www.ocma.net/index.html?page=current#California_Biennial
Five from LA at Galerie Lelong
December 16, 2010 – February 5, 2011
The Artist’s Museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art
October 31, 2010 – January 31, 2011
www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=440
Alexandra Grant Spreads Words of “Love” and More
www.cca.edu/news/2010/10/26/alexandra-grant-spreads-words-love-and-more
Bodies at Honor Fraser on Artforum.com
artforum.com/picks/section=la&mode=past#picks26606
In a new suite of paintings, Alexandra Grant continues her collaboration with writer Michael Joyce, interpreting his poetry and giving it a decidedly physical heft. As in her previous work, Grant has isolated individual words, plucking them from the linear flow of writing and inscribing them inside quivering oval bubbles or outlines. The words become a species of object—or, more properly, body parts—in their own right.
Titled “Bodies,” the exhibition marks Grant’s shift from acrylic on paper to thickly painted oil on linen, a move that gives the works a more corporeal presence. Whereas in her earlier output words seemed to skim across smooth membranes, now they are embedded in a taut, fibrous structure. Organized in exuberant patterns of muscular arcs and stripes, the paintings, like bodies, are also bilaterally symmetrical. Each word is mirrored (albeit imperfectly) across an invisible vertical boundary, and the backward writing reminds us that words are as much formal arrangements of shape and line as specific, content-bearing symbols. This transformation also evokes religious uses of writing or calligraphy as a form of meditation.
With their searing colors and obsessively repeated mark-making, the paintings gesture more toward the ecstasies of devotional art than toward the rigors of modern abstraction. In this sense, they suggest a rapturous alternative to the mind/body dichotomy, insisting that the various ways in which we understand and internalize the world, from abstract thought to concrete physical experience, are really all one and the same. — Sharon Mizota
Guest DJ Project at KCRW
www.kcrw.com/music/programs/gd/gd101006alexandra_grant
The Artist’s Museum at MOCA
On view September 19, 2010–January 24, 2011, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and October 31, 2010–January 31, 2011, at MOCA Grand Avenue.
MOCA presents a showcase of works by over 140 artists who have helped shape the artistic dialogue in Los Angeles since the founding of MOCA over 30 years ago. The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980–2010 will open on September 19, 2010, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA; and October 31, 2010, at MOCA Grand Avenue. This exhibition will represent the diversity and uniqueness of the Los Angeles community, and highlight important works from legendary L.A. artists who remain vital and influential alongside those emerging from renowned local art schools, visionary artists associated with various street and subcultures, and crossover artists connected to performance, music, and film.
www.moca.org/audio/blog/?p=812
Orange County Museum of Art announces artists in the California Biennial, 2010
Love Rings now available
to support the Love House and the Watts House Project
CA License Plate for Arts Advocacy Day
losangeles.foryourart.com/?s=know&item=323
Alexandra Grant at Salt Lake Art Center, March 22, 2010
SHOPTALK
Side Street Projects Podcast
hosted by Bari Zipperstein
sidestreet.org/podcast-shop-talk-2-alexandra-grant/
5 Senses/107th Street
5 Writers mapping the Watts Towers neighborhood, organized by Alexandra Grant
www.5senses107thstreet.com
Love at the Colette Store, Paris
curated by Rodarte
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/fashion/05diary-1.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=colette paris
rodarte&st=cse
Interview with Ed Schad, ArtSlant
www.artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom
Ed Schad, I call it ORANGES blog
Alexandra Grant and Synesthesia
September 26, 2008
www.icallitoranges.blogspot.com/
Edward Goldman, on KCRW’s Art Talk
Spooky, Unsettling, Mad
September 16, 2008
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at080916spooky_unsettling_ma
Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times
Around the Galleries; “Communication can be so abstract”
September 12, 2008
www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-galleries12-2008sep12,0,4064558.story
Christopher Miles, LA Weekly
Opening Week at L.A. Galleries; The fall art season begins
September 11, 2008
www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/art-books/opening-week-at-l-a-galleries/
