#borntolove

[raahisblog]

In the quiet atmosphere of the evening, I sat down beside you, foresklet— completely enchanted, as if my heart had known yours long before we ever met.

[thestarofvenus]

I've recognized that I was born to love and be loved.

[eccedentiasticgirl]

[azzachambers]

#Repost @scotch_soda ・・・ Double take 🎬Berlin-based dancers and twins @azamykins and @azza.bashir_, together since day one. #ScotchandSoda #BornToLove 📸 @ema_outsider @victo_somewhere ✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ2GLzaO7-v/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lowellryanprojects]

Alexandra Grant BORN TO LOVE Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 2019, 7-9pm June 1 - July 6, 2019 ✨ Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present Born to Love, a solo exhibition by Alexandra Grant. The title for the show stems from Sophocles’ play Antigone. In the ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone is brought before King Creon for disobeying his mandate against mourning the death of her brother, Polynices, who the King has labeled a traitor to the state. “An enemy is an enemy, even dead,” Creon says, to which Antigone replies, “I was born to love not to hate.” A blend of abstraction and text, Born to Love stands as an exploration of that radical stance—a stance that goes beyond its personal agenda to take on much greater social and universal implications. ✨ The show will feature large-scale works on paper from the Los Angeles-based artist’s Antigone 3000 series. These works simultaneously contrast and incorporate various forms of abstraction––geometric, gestural, color-field––with sepulchral wax rubbings of text. Through Grant’s painterly nods to abstraction, the works achieve their harmony by juxtaposing visual language with textual quotation, repeating the phrase “I was born to love not to hate” throughout the works. Born to Love is a visual proposition that Antigone, in choosing love over hate, rises above all opposition with her steadfast conviction. ✨ In creating each painting, Grant worked both on horizontal and vertical planes, ultimately giving both a feeling of mass and lightness to her forms. On the floor, she poured paint that both pooled and splattered, evidence of a natural, even violent series of events. The rubbings of Antigone’s voice also happened on the horizontal—echoes that refuse to be silenced. Moving the paper to the wall, Grant inserted rigid bands of color that drip down and compete with the pours and splatters of paint for dominance. The visual antagonism is palpable; each painting contains a battlefield of abstraction. ✨ #alexandragrant #borntolove #lowellryanprojects #westadams #antigone #grantlove #lovehouse #meetanartistmonday #artandcake #xartistbooks #shananysdambrot (at West Adams) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByBVUN4H9QC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nachojfoster]

BORN TO LOVE #borntolove #americantears #divine #divine&americantears #studio54 #tequedasmuerta (en Studio 54) https://www.instagram.com/p/COQrBaXj3tj/?igshid=vzr29nz5akcg

[lowellryanprojects]

Press: Flaunt

JUNE 28, 2019 ROXANE GAY AND ALEXANDRA GRANT "I WAS BORN TO LOVE, NOT TO HATE” BY HANNAH JACKSON

Courtesy of Lowell Ryan Projects.

"I was born to love, not to hate" remains one of the most iconic takeaways from Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Antigone. This line, spoken by the titular character herself, is a profound response to the play’s antagonist Creon when he states, “An enemy is an enemy, even dead.” This quote—a proverbial beacon of light in a play overflowing with hubris and revenge—was not lost on artist Alexandra Grant. Her new solo show, Born to Love, is now showing pieces from the Antigone 3000 series at Lowell Ryan Projects through July 6th. Grant’s works are a collage of the phrase “I was born to love, not to hate” in conjunction with colorful, abstract painting.

On Saturday, June 29th at 7 PM Grant will appear in conversation with writer Roxane Gay at Lowell Ryan Projects in Los Angeles. Gay and Grant will discuss the power of the eponymous phrase and how its ancient sentiment remains on the pulse of today’s culture.

Grant frequently incorporates text throughout her art, which ranges from sculpture, painting, drawing, film, and photography. She primarily explores themes of translation, identity, dis/location, and social responsibility through a variety of mediums.

Space is limited for this event. Please RSVP here.

FLAUNT

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[lowellryanprojects]

Artist Talk: Visual Storytelling, Antigone, and Love

Roxane Gay and Alexandra Grant in Conversation

Saturday, June 29, 7pm Lowell Ryan Projects 4851 West Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90016

Please join us for a conversation between artist Alexandra Grant and renowned writer Roxane Gay about visual storytelling, Antigone, and love in conjunction with Grant's exhibition Born to Love at Lowell Ryan Projects. Born to Love features large-scale works on paper that combine various forms of abstraction with the proclamation "I was born to love, not to hate" from Sophocles’ play Antigone. Grant and Gay will discuss the power of this stance and how the ancient sentiment resonates today.

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