Carrie Moyer in conversation with Lex Morgan Lancaster

Join us at Alexander Gray Associates, New York for a conversation between artist Carrie Moyer and art historian and curator Lex Morgan Lancaster on Saturday, September 28 at 2:00 PM. The talk is organized on the occasion of Timber!, Moyer’s first solo exhibition with the Gallery.

Throughout her career, Moyer has deployed abstraction as a vehicle for queer expression. Her recent paintings incorporate an expanded repertoire of materials—including volcanic rock, powdered minerals, and fiber paste—that radically alter the surface of the canvas. Moyer’s subversive, multilayered compositions advance her enduring aim to “engage the history of 20th-century painting from the margins, a position defined by humor, exuberance, and disruption.”

Lancaster’s Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art (2022) assesses how contemporary artists have “dragged” abstraction by unsettling binary categorizations of difference regarding gender and sexuality. Moyer’s practice sheds light on Lancaster’s assertion that queer abstraction uses “… form and matter to trouble normative categories and shift perspectives, perverting abstraction’s overloaded history in its wake.”

Carrie Moyer lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her vibrant paintings and works on paper are informed by her history of social activism and background in graphic design, while foregrounding an approach to abstraction rooted in optical pleasure. Moyer’s work is represented in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Moyer is a Professor and the Co-Director of the graduate studio program at Hunter College in New York. She is also on the Board of Governors at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

Lex Morgan Lancaster (they/them) is a scholar and curator who focuses on queer, trans, anti-racist, and crip contributions to the field of contemporary art. Their book, Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art (Duke University Press, 2022), focuses on the queer politics of formal and material strategies in contemporary art. Their work has been published in ASAP/Journal, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, and Texte Zur Kunst. Lancaster is Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Art at Cooper Union.

September 28, 2024
2:00–4:00 PM
Free entry
Please RSVP at rsvp@alexandergray.com