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Digital Distress – Consumed by Infinity // December 8, 2017–March 25, 2018

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Industry City Open Studios

May 20 - May 21 noon - 6pm

219 36th Street  4th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11232

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SculptureCenter Lucky Draw 2017

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“Your Vacuum Sucks” screening at the Whitney Museum

"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

http://whitney.org/Events/DreamsAndNightmares

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St.Francis

2016

Digital print, plexi glass, ceramics, acrylic, hardware

#luckydraw #sculpturecenter

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I'm excited to have a new piece in a group show entitled MDF Blog, curated by Grayson Cox at Planthouse gallery, 55 West 28th street, New York. Show opens February 26th, 6-8

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Janus by Alexandra Lerman and Madeline Hollander

at Codes for Conduct Jan 22 - Feb 21, 2016 NURTUREart 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn NY Curated by Lindsey Berfond and Jocelyn Edens

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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.  

The Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013 http://www.drawingcenter.org/

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AN ARGUMENT FOR DIFFERENCE at TSA

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.

This closer-up view detects inward movements within and between the works. Halting an inclination to language and the errant logic that wants to call these works together into a notion, the curators wish to draw out the space felt and caught before translation.

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Jeff Gibson’s Artforum review of Pieter’s show and the film we made together. 

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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 

Opening, July 16, 2015 6-8pm 

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Screening + Performance at 356 S. Mission Road:

Your Vacuum Sucks (2015, 38 min) a film by Pieter Schoolwerth & Alexandra Lerman

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a live performance by Nate Young

Saturday, June 13 at 7 PM 356 S. Mission Road Los Angeles CA

**to read an interview with Pieter about this film, click HERE

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INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCES require extra signage. I’ve been to symposia at Yale before, but last Saturday’s was my first at the law school, so it was only by grace of several fluorescent red posters that I found the auditorium and the gratis coffee. An enormous freestanding placard marked the check-in desk: “The Legal Medium: New Encounters of Art and Law.” There, four graduate students sat in a row tending to stacks of name tags, each of them, jarringly enough, dressed in red—a swatch-book’s worth of clashing hues. When I opened the program they handed me, I half expected to find a Valentine’s card.

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In Practice: Under Foundations surveys diverse media through the lens of foundations and other raw, basic, and structural forms. The exhibition was curated by Jess Wilcox, the 2014-15 SculptureCenter Curatorial Fellow. Wilcox commissioned 11 artists to present pieces that analyze what lies beneath a work’s exterior.

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SculptureCenter January 25 - April 13, 2015

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

Newly Commissioned Works by Rosa Aiello, Mary Walling Blackburn, Nanna Debois Buhl, Catherine Czacki, Ben Hagari, Sol Hashemi, Madeline Hollander and Alexandra Lerman, Janelle Iglesias, Ryan Johnson, and Xu Wang. Situated in the building's lower level, the works in Under Foundations share an interest in what lies beneath the surface—the repressed, the discarded, the roots, or the source. Many of these works speak to unconscious desires, while others seek to trace, discover, and examine the past. The exhibition evokes a storage space of forsaken objects, full of stories and revelations. Together, these works incorporate a variety of disciplines—psychoanalysis, behavioral science, economics, and affect theory—and the impulse, act, and process of making are integral parts of a search for the elusive origins of the creative endeavor. They look to psychological states, everyday movements and behaviors, art historical touchstones, and deep-seated desires as points of departure. Madeline Hollander's performances, part of Illegal Motion by Madeline Hollander and Alexandra Lerman, will take place on the following dates and times: January 24, 4 and 5pm February 22, 3 and 5pm March 29, 3 and 5pm April 12, 3 and 5pm April 13, 3 and 5pm Performed by: Andrew Champlin, Marielis Garcia, Katie Gaydos, Madeline Hollander, and Jeremy Pheiffer.

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Immediate Release by Alexandra Lerman

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Your Vacuum Sucks at Gallery SKE in New Delhi, India

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.

More on the exhibition on Gallery SKE's website