#alexandria smith

[oldsardens]

Alexandria Smith - The Gift. 2019

[burningsoft]

Alexandria Smith, Languorous undulations (in the temple of my familiar), 2022

“Seers like me, we ruin all of that. We whisper dreamed-up secrets, heavy predictions, and the world bends around our words. When people brush against our skin, they feel the electric glow of a reality being made or unmade, and I see how deeply they recoil, down to their souls. I don’t blame them. Everything in them is hissing to pull away before the power burrows under their skin, before it changes them as well. I am being changed in every waking and dreaming moment, watching as the threads of fate glitch and shift around me. Given all this, it is no surprise that all seers eventually go mad, but here is a poorly kept secret—sometimes, the people around us go a little mad as well.”

Text extract - Akwaeke Emezi

[contemporaryartdaily]

NADA Miami 2019

[unusualmodesofresistance]

I’m trying to also universalize the black experience, because it’s always separated. It’s always put in this closet that you take out when it’s convenient, and that’s negating our impact and influence in the world, making it seem as if this is a separate experience.

Alexandria Smith

[skowhegan]

Arthur Simms (A ‘85, F ‘10), Alexandria Smith (A ‘15) Lost & Found  Marots Gallery  41 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10013 February 5 - March 13

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #712

first posted in facebook june 27, 2019

alexandria smith -- "the incognegroes" (2018)

"humor and a dark probing of social issues are filtered through my own mythology: a cast of characters, symbols and landscapes that have developed in my work" ... alexandria smith

"[alexandria smith's] piece 'the incognegroes' reflects other shifts in [her] work. a tightly composed view of walking women that she says was influenced by marcel duchamp’s 'nude descending a staircase'” ... pamela reynolds

"i went to the museum and stood on a chair some girl drew a crowd by what she didn't wear she made everybody look up there it was a naked girl falling down the stairs" ... lux interior

"the idea of visibility and invisibility was something that i think i was going for. how can these figures both be present and invisible at the same time? how can these figures both be independent but also together, and sort of joined, and be a part of their environment literally?" ... alexandria smith (on her painting "the incognegroes")

"that partially explains the title 'incognegroes' — a tongue-in-cheek slang term sometimes used to refer to those of african descent who don’t acknowledge their african heritage and sometimes used to refer to a black person who prefers to remain in the background" ... pamela reynolds

"toe after toe, a snowing flesh, a gold of lemon, root and rind, she sifts in sunlight down the stairs with nothing on. nor on her mind.

we spy beneath the banister a constant thresh of thigh on thigh; her lips imprint the swinging air that parts to let her parts go by.

one-woman waterfall, she wears her slow descent like a long cape and pausing on the final stair, collects her motions into shape" ... x.j. kennedy

"shapes ... of things before my eyes ... just teach me to surprise ... will rhyme make men more wise?" ... al janik

[persinsala]

Postcard from New York - part II

Postcard from New York – part II

Lotta e cultura si fondono nelle ricerche degli artisti afro-americani, che con la mostra Postcard from New York evidenziano l’urgenza di non dimenticare. (more…)

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