Alix Pearlstein
From her website:
Alix Pearlstein's practice spans the fields of video, performance, installation, sculpture and collage. Across these forms, she describes an arena in which competitions, seductions, vanities, and judgments are both the subject and the object of scrutiny. She often works with modular figurative objects, both handmade and readymade, as well as with ensemble groups of actors, mining their professional skills and personal dramas for points of connection or dissonance. Whether staging interactions between groups of people or groups of things, her works explore human subjectivity through relationships, behavior, character, power dynamics and social constructs, to highlight moments where the psychological and spatial overlap. Pearlstein's work in video, performance, installation and sculpture has been widely exhibited internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include ASHES/ASHES, NYC, UK Art Museum, Lexington KY; Upfor Gallery, Portland OR; On Stellar Rays, NYC; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; CAM, St. Louis; The Kitchen, NYC and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA. Performances have been seen at Aspen Art Museum, Art Basel, Miami and The Park Avenue Armory, NYC. Selected group exhibitions include FRONT Triennial, Cleveland, OH; Whitechapel, London; ParaSite, Hong Kong; The New Museum, NYC; INOVA, Milwaukee; MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam, Israel; Internationale D’Art De Quebec; Annual Exhibition of Visual Art, Ireland; The Whitney Museum, NYC; SMAK, Ghent, Belgium; Biennale de Lyon, France and MoMA, NYC. Pearlstein is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2011 Grants to Artists Award, serves on the Board of Governors of The Skowhegan School, and is on the faculty of the SVA MFA Program. She lives and works in NYC and Orient, NY.
