a solo exhibition of new works by Alex Markwith
EXHIBITION ON VIEW
May 24 - June 12, 2022
Makers’ Gallery
Kirkkopuistikko 18, 65100 Vaasa, Finland
Kiertokulku at Galleria Ronga
Three of my sculptures are included in the group exhibition “Kiertokulku” at Galleria Ronga, Tampere, Finland.
Alex Markwith, Totem with Gray Bar, 2020, acrylic and found wood, 53 x 12 x 35cm
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EXHIBITION ON VIEW 27.11 - 16.12.2021
FEATURING WORKS BY:
Marjo Hallila, Anssi Hanhela, Taru Happonen, Sini-Meri Hedberg, Sofi Häkkinen, Helena Kaikkonen, Mira Kankaanranta, Satu Kiuru, Kaisu Koski, Appe Leppänen, Alex Markwith, Anni Mikkonen, Rasmus Mäkelä, Hans-Peter Schütt, Sami Sänpäkkilä, Sanna Ulvila, Mirimari Väyrynen
curated by Emmi Kallio
GALLERIA RONGA
Rongankatu 1 C 9, 33100 Tampere
Puh. 045 268 1022
Tues - Fri 12 - 18 | Sat - Sun 12 - 16
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Alex Markwith, Ventricle, 2020, acrylic and found wood, 46 x 18 x 10cm
Artistic work supported by funds from Taike.
OVERCURRENTS on view at Max Mara Helsinki
Overcurrents is a solo exhibition of collaged paintings by Alex Markwith which incorporate materials such as spray paint, mesh, foil, tape and torn up garments. Created in the early months of 2021, the canvases are populated by a mix of intentional and incidental process marks, blurring the lines between found, deliberate and provisional aesthetics.
Read more"Elemental Transmissions", solo exhibition, Laterna Magica, Helsinki
on view January 13 - 30, 2021
Alex Markwith
ELEMENTAL TRANSMISSIONS
on view January 13 - 30th, 2021
Gallery Hours:
Mon - Fri 10 - 5
Saturday 10 - 3
Sunday closed
LATERNA MAGICA
Rauhankatu 7, 00170 Helsinki, Finland
PRESS RELEASE
Elemental Transmissions is a solo exhibition of new work by Alex Markwith created for Laterna Magica. On view from January 13 – 30, the exhibition includes installation pieces, works on paper and wall-hung assemblages which combine aspects of painting and sculpture while incorporating found materials.
Tree branches, cut plywood, chains, plastic, metal, tape, fabric and concrete are collaged together in irregular compositions. Different characteristics of chosen materials result in a play of opposites - natural vs. man-made, light vs. heavy, hard vs. soft, masculine vs. feminine – orchestrated playfully and experimentally within each work to create a sense of unbalanced order. Primarily abstract, many pieces resemble totemic structures. They relate to the human body through their scale, and flirt with representation via recognizable components which occasionally appear unobscured.
This series was created alongside the artists’ investigation into alchemy and the classical elements. The concept of “transmission” or “transition” refers to the new patterns of thought brought on by the changing year as well as the artist’s change of environment. As we leave 2020 behind, there is a longing for a better future which can be likened to the desired alchemical change of transmuting a lesser metal into gold.
Alex Markwith (b. 1988, Kingston, PA) is an American visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland, where he moved in September 2020 after living and working for nine years in New York City. He holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and is a member of Taidemaalariliito. His works are included in numerous private collections, as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (TX).
Elemental Transmissions is the artist's first solo exhibition in Finland and is supported by funds from Taike.
Laterna Magica, Rauhankatu 7, 00170 Helsinki
https://www.laterna.net/exhibitions/elemental-transmissions
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Alex Markwith, Totem with Blue, 2020, acrylic, wood and reflective fabric, 76 x 60 cm
Alex Markwith, Fire Totem with Moonrise, 2020, acrylic, wood, plastic, metal, wire and fabric, 90 x 50 cm
Alex Markwith, Continental Drift, 2020, acrylic, concrete, plastic, wood, fabric, metal and found objects (two panels)
Alex Markwith, Utopia and Black Hole
View images of all works
Video Walkthrough
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CREATIVE MOSAIC at Flushing Town Hall
left: Alex Markwith, QUADRUPLE VOID (BLACK, ORANGE, CAUTION), 2019
right: Alex Markwith, ORANGE VOID (BLACK, WHITE, GREY), 2019
both works on view at Flushing Town Hall in the exhibition CREATIVE MOSAIC
Opening Friday Feb 28
6 - 8pm
Exhibition on view February 28 - March 15, 2020
with a closing reception Sunday March 15, 3 - 5pm
Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, Queens, NY 11354
http://www.flushingtownhall.org/exhibition
EVERY GHETTO EVERY CITY
two works by Alex Markwith included in “Every Getto, Every City” at BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ
BSB Gallery
143 East State Street Suite 4, Trenton, NJ 08608
https://www.bsbgallery.com/
AFFECTION presented by Orchard Galerie @ Taste Collection, 83 Rivington Street New York, NY
AFFECTION
presented by Orchard Galerie
four works by Alex Markwith included in the exhibition
Opening reception Saturday November 23rd, 6 - 10pm
Exhibition on view at Taste Collection, 83 Rivington Street New York, NY 10002
Works available online through Orchard Galerie
From the press release
Orchard Galerie is pleased to present AFFECTION, the art exhibition for the opening reception of Taste Café, a place where art meets music. On Saturday, November 23, 6-10 pm at Taste Collection, 83 Rivington St, NY NY 10002.
In the exhibition Orchard Galerie will spotlight artworks by Jessica Matter, Greg Griffith, Amy Stone, Ilya Dorsky, Anastasia Samohovetc, Alex Markwith, Nana S.R. Tinley, Monica Delgado and will showcase one-of-a-kind fashion art pieces by Mary Rosenberger, Rebecca Lipsitch, Kopf and among others. By being presented in a multimedia context, AFFECTION seeks to demonstrate how art integrates the whole of perception by immersing guests in an array of experiences (visuals, aromas, flavors and sounds) to enable interactions beyond what’s physically tangible. Notions of rhythm, brushstrokes, vibes, colors, textures, harmonies, expression, cadence, and the like will be liberated and will merge with what the evening has to offer.
Taste Cafe NYC aims to be a point of contact for art connoisseurs, music lovers, and like-minded individuals seeking inspiration and/or new flavors in an informal gallery-like setting. The space is proudly colorful, confident and artistic. Executive TSISMIS Chef Jappy Afzelius created a seasonal menu for Taste Cafe NYC consisting of pastries and other baked goods using a new wave of techniques and ingredients such as matcha, ube (purple yam), pandan, among others; as well as a curated selection of the finest coffees and teas.
The music line up consists of internationally acclaimed DJ SASHA HART, DJ MC Jay Vallo, DJ Stevo, and more. In additional to music entertainment life-painting with Dj Vallo, Mary Rosenberger and vogue dance performance by Karina Precious.
Composed of an international network of art bloggers, social media influencers, taste-makers, photographers, videographers, aspiring curators and other artists; Orchard Galerie offers the resources and support structure for artists to connect with new audiences and markets.
Hosted by Orchard Galerie's CEO Daria Mudrova, Art Curator Irina Chistikina, and Taste Cafe’s music curator Sasha Hart.
Alex Markwith, Surrounded Void (AU / UT), 2019
Alex Markwith, Multi Panel Assemblage 9 (Orca), 2019
AFFECTION
Location: 83 Rivington Street, NYC 10002
Opening/presentation: Saturday November 23rd, 6 to 10pm
GENERAL INQUIRIES
info@orchardgalerie.com
ALCHEMY exhibition @ Arts Guild of Sonoma juried by Jenny Gheith (SFMoMA)
EXHIBITION ON VIEW OCTOBER 3 to NOVEMBER 3, 2019
Opening reception Saturday October 5th, 5 - 7:30
Alex Markwith, Multi-Panel Assemblage 7 (Odyssey), 2019, 31” x 26”
The Arts Guild of Sonoma
140 E Napa St, Sonoma, CA 95476
Open Wed through Mon, 11am-5pm
Closed Tuesdays
EXHIBITION ON VIEW OCTOBER 3 to NOVEMBER 3, 2019
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Alchemists were notorious for attempting to make synthetic gold, but their goals were far more ambitious: to transform and bend nature to the will of human imagination. “The aim of alchemy, to both imitate nature and transcend it, lies at the heart of artistic practices. Creativity itself can be said to describe a process of going beyond mere imitation—to create a new reality.” – Nora Landes. The Arts Guild of Sonoma invites artists to express their dreams, desires, mysteries, symbols, creativity and enlightenment in ALCHEMY, our third annual National Juried Exhibition.
ABOUT THE JUROR
Jenny Gheith is Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Gheith previously served as program director for the Society for Contemporary Art and curatorial assistant at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has taught at the California College of the Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Creative Mosaic: Artists Working in Queens, curated by Osman Can Yerebakan @ Plaxall Gallery
EXHIBITION ON VIEW SEPTEMBER 5 - OCTOBER 13, 2019
Alex Markwith, Quadruple Void (Black, Orange, Caution), 2019, 20 x 16”
Alex Markwith, Orange Void (Black, White, Grey), 2019, 20 x 16”
Alex Markwith, Plaxall Gallery, installation September 2019
CREATIVE MOSAIC
Artists Working in Queens
A juried exhibition curated by Osman Can Yerebakan, conceived and developed by Carol Crawford
LIC–A’s aim is to increase awareness and appreciation of the richly diverse art produced throughout Queens.
Exhibition on View: September 5 – October 13
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 8, 1-4pm
Day of LIVE PERFORMANCES: September 14, 2-6pm
Closing Reception & Artist Talk: October 13, 2-5pm
Facebook page for Opening Reception:
facebook.com/events/516405309120015
Facebook page for Creative Mosaic LIVE:
About the Curator
Osman Can Yerebakan is a curator and art writer based in New York. His writing has appeared on T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Paris Review, Vulture and The Cut (both New York Magazine), The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Village Voice, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Wallpaper*, L’Officiel, Flaunt, Galerie Magazine, Cultured, and elsewhere.
Osman previously organized exhibitions at The Clemente Center (Residual Impression; A Room of One's Own), La MaMa Galleria (Party Out Of Bounds: Nightlife As Activism Since 1980), Radiator Gallery (Works: Reflections on Failure), Equity Gallery (Like Smoke), AC Institute (My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days), Center for Book Arts (En Masse: Books Orchestrated), Local Project (Hopscotch), UrbanGlass (Glass Ceiling: Art of Resilience and Fragility), Leslie Lohman Museum Project Space (Alternate Routes), the Queens Museum (Executive (Dis)Order: Art, Displacement & the Ban), and Residency Unlimited (Contingencies).
ALEX MARKWITH - SELECT WORKS NOW AVAILABLE ON ARTFARE
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RAW MATERIAL - Alex Markwith at Ille Arts, Amagansett by Janet Goleas
Alex Markwith, Untitled (Black with Pinks), 2013, 22 x 13”
Alex Markwith - Recent Work
ILLE ARTS - Amagansett
May 5, 2013
Alex Markwith's new paintings bounce from illusory fields of pitch black to color-punched assemblages made from cardboard, fabric and wood scraps. Markwith's minimal means yield vivid results at Ille Arts in Amagansett where they are currently on view.
The imagery in his black paintings is fugitive, and it seems to float across the picture face through total darkness. The larger the work the more phantom its pictorial architecture, and it sinks in and out of blackness like a mirage. For Markwith, black is an absolute.
Alex Markwith, Black Horizontal with Red Vertical), 2013, 60 x 76"
Where light falls becomes integral to reading the larger black works like Untitled (Large Black Horizontal with Red Vertical) above. The painting is not monumental but it's large enough that it cannot be apprehended all at once -- not because of its scale but because of its darkness. It's like looking into a cave.
Here, dark vs light becomes a phenomenon that forces the viewer to assemble the work in chapters, like a book, because you just can't see it all at once. You find yourself scanning the surface, identifying passages as they emerge into light and relying on memory to assemble the picture in the mind's eye. The surface is visceral, dense and so intuitive that it's almostcongenital in nature.
As the work coalesces, its content comes into focus with rich passages of structural myth-making, overlapping visual idioms and instinctive formal decisions. The arrow shape at its center -- barely visible at first glance -- is tectonic, setting the stage for a picture space that is dramatic and filled with pulsing, abstract energy.
detail: Alex Markwith, Untitled (Large Black Horizontal with Red Vertical), 2013, 60 x 76”
This is the dominant painting in the front gallery -- the first thing you see when you walk in the door. That its content is rich but so fleeting, anchored by a single strip of red pigment, is fascinating -- its surface and structure is sumptuous and it possesses a formal richness that smacks of spot-on impulse.
Alex Markwith, Untitled (Small Orange), 2013, 18 x 13”
Markwith understands color, too, applying it variously with painterly strokes that advance the picture field toward content or saturating it with such rich chroma that the works look not so much painted as they do marinated in color.
Alex Markwith, Untitled (Textural Painting 1), 2013
His decision making is instinctive, with a powerful formal structure. Shards of linen and pinstripe textiles cleave against the subtle ribbing of corrugated board, salvaged wood slats that reroute the picture space or dive across image fields with dramatic effect. His sense of order is intrinsic.
Alex Markwith, Untitled (Work on Canvas with Green), 2012
Markwith graduated from RISD in 2011. In the beginning there, he spent much of his time undoing the presumptions about Western canon with which he had arrived. His response to the dissolution of pictorial representation in works from the early 20th century fueled much of his understanding of abstraction -- a concept he had found untenable early on. Malevich, Schwitters, Scarpitta and eventually Rauschenberg figured heavily in this personal renaissance. It's clear that he gets it now.
Alex Markwith, Concave, 2013
Alex Markwith, Untitled (Hydrant/Plug), 2013, 21 x 12 1/2 x 10"
Markwith works both in Montauk and in New York City, with marked differences in each studio environment. Although he finds no determinate factors in either place, he acknowledged that the low ceilings in New York have an impact on scale. In saying that, I couldn't help imagine the structure of his works being impacted by a specific architecture. The works are quintessentially urban -- very much the product of right angles. And while his compositions are drawn from the 2-dimensional they possess a depth that is sculptural. Indeed, he also works in the round, with crisp and thoughtful results.
Alex Markwith is someone to keep your eye on. Don't miss his show at Ille Arts.
Alex, Ille Arts, installation view