Alexandra Grant
Alexandra Annette Grant is an American visual artist who examines language and written texts through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media. She uses language and exchanges with writers as a source for much of that work. In 2007, Grant had her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
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Alexandra Annette Grant is an American visual artist who examines language and written texts through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media. She uses language and exchanges with writers as a source for much of that work. In 2007, Grant had her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, curated by Alma Ruiz. In 2013, Grant collaborated on twin series of exhibitions with Hélène Cixous, based on the latter’s book Philippines. In 2015, Grant exhibited a painting in a two-person exhibition with Steve Roden at the Pasadena Museum of California Art that was called “These Carnations Defy Language “. These works were inspired by the film of the same name by Adam Curtis.
In 2016, Grant spoke about their telepathic relationship in 2013 as part of a conversation from Mains d’Oeuvres to Nottingham Contemporary in 2016. In 2008 she participated in Edgar Arceneaux’s Watts House Project, a non profit group that aimed to renovate houses across the Watts Towers, in LA. She resigned from the projects’ board but is still raising funds in order to complete the “Love House” No work has been completed as of yet. The paintings and sculpture based on Michael Joyce’s texts have been the subject of at least three series: the \”Ladder Quartet\”, the \”Six Portals\”, and “Bodies”
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