May 30, 2019
Carolina A. Miranda
Alexandra Grant, “Born to Love,” at Lowell Ryan Projects. The title of the show is inspired by a well-known line in Sophocles’ “Antigone,” in which King Creon brings Antigone before him and orders her not to mourn the death of her brother. She responds: “I was born to love, not to hate.” In new works on paper that fuse different types of abstraction, the L.A.-based artist explores ideas of love by creating text rubbings of Antigone’s defiant expression all over the variegated surfaces of her works. Opens Saturday at 7 p.m. and runs through July 6. 4851 W. Adams Blvd., West Adams, Los Angeles, lowellryanprojects.com.
