The catalog is published by Miles McEnery Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition ALEXANDRA GRANT.
“When Alexandra discusses the act of painting the large-scale works in the series Antigone 3000, it becomes clear that the narrative of the play provides a baseline structure for the paintings. The horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines that punctuate many of the compositions represent the ‘rule of law’; the serendipitous ‘pours’ of paint and the resulting drips are ‘the messiness of life’; and the Rorschach-like text of Antigone’s words reverberate throughout the field of abstraction, representing the ‘natural law’ she followed. (In response, we may ask ourselves, ‘Do you defy orders to do what is right? Do you answer to the rule of law or to a higher law? Do you look beyond the rigid rules to a chasm of meaning and principle that may swallow you whole?’) In the beginning of this series, the paintings were abstracted narratives of this tragic dynamic. As Alexandra has continued working on the series since 2014, her vision has exploded this bind and provided space for new formal and conceptual considerations.”
—”Yellow is the Challenging Color: Alexandra Grant and Antigone 3000″ by Sarah C. Bancroft
The ALEXANDRA GRANT catalog is available at milesmcenery.com