Courts (March 23 – April 20, 2024) is Martyna Alexander’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Through the creation of spaces and rigid visual systems that are both fantastical and rooted in a deep connection to real ancestral environments and lifestyles, Martyna Alexander explored how our psyche is affected by our families’ past and our connection to place in “Courts.”
By understanding sports – or play, place-making, and fantasy together as tools that deconstruct or replicate patterned behaviors of past lives, we begin to understand the ways in which they affect the environment, people or self and reflect on our inner or communal needs.
2024.
“Untitled (Big Net)”, 64×84″, Acrylic and Pigment Stick on Canvas, 2024.
Her latest series of work is a reference to, and an evolution of her last exhibition, Fields, exploring the balance of expectation and the practice of acceptance. And of breaking perfect compositions using unexpected textures, embellishments, and spontaneous incidents that challenge previous notions of design, the idea of “perfection” and the expectation of correctness by a consumer and market-driven culture.
2024.
About the Artist
Martyna Alexander is an artist who works primarily in painting and design. She is interested in how using sustainable constructs of routine and lifestyle can create an art practice that might push back against institutional structures that contrast with self-nurturing methodologies.
Her large-scale works typically involve nuanced color palettes and she frequently makes art referencing the abstracted rigid aspects of culture and society.
