ALEXANDRA HEMRICK
ORIGINAL TITLE
"Uncertainty has been a constant companion of mine. I've decided that I'd rather live my truth, and possibly fail horribly, than be someone else and disappear."
-Alexandra Hemrick for Inbtwn Magazine
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EXHIBITIONS:
Forthcoming DEAR Artists Residency (November) and Stay Home Gallery Residency (2022)
2020 "Garden of Earthly Delights' with Elizabeth Porcel at Poem 88
2020 Summer Invitational MINT Gallery
2019 ‘Be. Long. Ing.’ I Like Your Work Podcast Online Juried Exhibition
2019 Rockwall Gallery, Wedgewood-Houston Art Crawl, Nashville, TN
2019 Hambidge Auction, $100 Works Section
2019 InstaShow, Spruill Gallery, Dunwoody GA
2019 Postcard Pinup, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019 Cheap, Cheap Art Fair, Live painting & Display of Work, The Mast, Atlanta, GA
2019 Dead Ringer 3, Future Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019 Flat File, The Mast, Atlanta, GA
2019 GIFC Velvet Ropes, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Norway
2018 Mail Art Biennial, Ground Floor BK, Brooklyn, NY
2019 IMPRINTS, Art Center, Sarasota, FL
2019 GIFC, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
2019 Speak Muse, In Passing NYC, NY
2019 GIFC, The Hole, NYC
2019 Looks Good on Paper, Spruill Gallery, Dunwoody, GA
2019 EngageMINT Auction, Hathaway Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019 Small Works Show, Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West
2019 ‘EVERYTHING | NOTHING,’ Outdoor Installation, Salon Suburbia, Dunwoody, GA
2018 Postcard Pinup, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018 Salon Suburbia, Dunwoody, GA
2018 Chalk Mural for Trees Atlanta, Audubon Society @ Piedmont Park
2018 Activating the Apparatus, StrangeMatter ATL, Atlanta, GA
RESIDENCIES:
2019-2020 Round 2, Year-Long Therapeutic Artist Residency Group (TAR GROUP), Atlanta, GA
ARTICLES:
Pretty Girls Making Cool Shit, “Alexandra Hemrick.” August 27, 2019
Tuscano, Shelly. “Art + Life with Alexandra Hemrick.” Voyage ATL. September 5, 2018
Tuscano, Shelly. “Atlanta Arts & Culture Weekly Review.” Voyage ATL. August 3, 2018.
Seamans, Taylor. “Uncertainty.” Inbtwn Magazine. Volume 6, May 21, 2018, p. 51
Genis, Leia, “UTB Zine: Painting,” Winter 2020, p. 18
CURATORIAL:
October 19 2019 “The Well of Memory by Scott Silvey” Salon Suburbia, Dunwoody, GA
April 2019 “EVERYTHING | NOTHING” Salon Suburbia, Dunwoody, GA.
November 2018 “Salon Suburbia”
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is defined by its use of the often mundane visual language of nature, the suburbs, and domestic life which become exaggerated and exalted through a moralistic surrealism, as well as through starkly contrasted colors in order to transcend their perceived lowly status, becoming meaningful symbols. Inspired by the relentless, and sometimes needless landscaping of the suburbs, as well as clear cutting for development, I collect these images first in photographs, and in my mind before transforming them through the lens of my artist eye which highlights and distorts that which is felt and must be seen and heard. The tangible part of my process begins with sketches first, then into paintings, and finally into objects that transcend the flat plane. As humans have historically tried to control nature for their ends, so too has the patriarchy with systems rooted in white supremacy used its power and privilege to wield control over society. Symbols such as a common garden trellis take on new meaning where growth is allowed, but only where you want it, and only so high.
BIO
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Alexandra Hemrick is a visual artist, and curator of ongoing project, "Salon Suburbia," in Dunwoody, Georgia.