Exhibitions

Kay Rosen

No Noose Is Good Noose November 19, 2008 - January 10, 2009 New York Alexander Gray Associates in association with Yvon Lambert, New York and Paris Exhibited was Kay Rosen’s 1983 text-based installation, No Noose is Good Noose, and a related unpublished artist book Mined, both of which are key works in Rosen’s development as an innovator with text as image. The exhibition ran... Read more

Dawit L. Petros

October 15 - November 15, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates Dawit Petros' exhibition debuted new photographic works created in Eritrea and Kenya. These resulting photographs, of East African landscape, architecture, and residents, are highly formalized through Petros’ lens. His images are further distanced through their presentation; mounted under darkened Plexiglas, and arranged in grids of multiple sizes,... Read more

Lorraine O'Grady

Miscegenated Family Album September 10 - October 11, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates Lorraine O’Grady’s iconic series, Miscegenated Family Album is her 1994 photo-installation of cibachrome diptychs. Originating from her 1980 performance work, Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline, this 16-part photographic series juxtaposes appropriated images from O’Grady’s family history with images of iconic Ancient Egyptian sculptures. The image pairs draw uncanny aesthetic parallels,... Read more

Mildred's Lane

Curated by J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion June 18 - September 6, 2008 New York Mildred's Lane Curated by J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion Alexander Gray Associates Diana Balmori , Jorge Colombo, Moyra Davey, Mark Dion, Hope Ginsburg, John Haskell, Jeffrey Jenkins, Athena Kokoronis, Josiah McElheny, Monique Milleson, J. Morgan Puett, Rebecca Purcell, Jason Simon, Allison Smith, Brian Tolle, Robert Williams, Nitin Jayaswal, Amy... Read more

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

April 30 - June 14, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates In the four abstract paintings in this exhibition, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe revisits the grid and the vertically oriented canvas. The grid, which possessed a more architectural look when it first appeared in his paintings in the late 1970s and early 80s, becomes a mesmerizing force in new paintings... Read more

Luis Camnitzer

March 19 - April 26, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates Since the late 1960s, Luis Camnitzer has created works in a variety of media—including installation, printmaking, drawing, and photography—that expose our collective indifference to the violence governments inflict on individuals. A pioneer of conceptual art, Camnitzer critiques current political realities with a perspective informed by his first-hand... Read more

Bruce Yonemoto

February 6 - March 15, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates Continuing his ongoing research and interest in Hollywood cinema and its role in shaping cultural identity, Bruce Yonemoto presented a group of photographs that examine American wars, heroism, and ideas of national building. In the series Untitled (NSEW), Bruce Yonemoto appropriates American Civil War-era photographic portraiture. Such... Read more