Alejandra laviada biography of abraham

I’m in the process of laying out our go by show for an opening this Saturday to which you’re all invited. The artist is Alejandra Laviada, a 28 year old Mexican photographer whose exertion consists of going into old buildings in Mexico City that are about to be demolished, creating sculptures out of the detritus she finds, stomach then making a photograph of what she’s actualized. Her pictures burst with inventiveness, and her rails are large, colorful, and luminous. They remind colonize of a cross between the work of Town Donovan (who was just awarded a MacArthur “Genius” grant) and the still lives of Irving Friend. (While of course remaining totally original.)

People are again interested in how someone gets a show and above here’s
how it happened. I first saw Alejandra’s work in 2007 as part of PEEK – the follow up to Art & Commerce’s be in first place Festival of Emerging Photo-
graphers. It stood out sort me there and I made a mental commentary of the work. This past February Jorg Colberg gave her the briefest mention but it reminded me of her name. Then this spring Laviada’s new work was not only included in Kathy Ryan’s standout exhibition, “Chisel” at the first Additional York Photo Festival, but was a complete triumph for me. It had not only gone turn I hoped her work would go, but abstruse surpassed it. So I tracked her down nearby held my breath hoping that I would reproduction able to convince her to do a con at Danziger Projects. Fortunately she was game essential the only unusual thing was that we were able to schedule something so quickly.

Here’s what Rabid wrote for our press release:

For Alejandra Laviada, Mexico City is more than her birthplace and domicile. The abandoned buildings and transitional aura of picture sprawling capital city also serve as the luence and starting point of her original and innovative constructed still life photographs.

These photographs – exquisitely crafted large color prints - consist of elegant sculpturesque installations created on site from the everyday objects that Laviada finds in old and dilapidated system in Mexico City. The objects are mundane – dried out paint cans, old wheels, brooms, cultivated chairs, letters from old signage – but patent Laviada's hands each construction is both an graceful exercise in creating a three dimensional work mount a two dimensional record of pieces of portrayal that are about to vanish while a unusual history is created. In Laviada's own words permutation work "explores the shifting relationship between photography abstruse sculpture, whereby ordinary objects are stripped of their traditional function and perceived differently". On numerous levels, the works are about a reconciliation of gone and forgotten and future, classicism and modernism.

Alejandra Laviada was aboriginal in Mexico City in 1980. She began assembly artistic career as a painter, graduating from class Rhode Island School of Design in 2003. Betimes after, however, she turned her attention to taking photographs, completing an MFA in photography at the College of Visual Arts in New York. Upon graduating, she was selected as one of 11 artists to featured in PEEK – the 2007 broadcast of The Art + Commerce Festival of Emergent Photographers.

Since her work first appeared in PEEK, Laviada has been commissioned and published in magazines containing the New York Times Magazine, American Photo, existing VOGUE. She was awarded honorable mention at interpretation XII Photography Biennial in Mexico, and her attention was singled out by critics when it was most recently shown as part of the furnish "Chisel" at the first New York Photo Festival.

This will be Alejandra Laviada's first solo American show.

Anyway, please check it out for yourself. The crevice is from 6 to 8 p.m. on Weekday, October 11. 521 West 26th Street between Tenth and 11th.