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Alexandra Kennedy

ALEXANDRA KENNEDY

Urban Erasure Two Rooms 9 February–9 March 2024 Auckland
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In Urban Erasures Alexandra Kennedy addresses the boundaries between art and life in the context of a non-objective painting practice. The project began with walking in urban spaces, where drawn to peripheral spaces of the city she encountered ‘life as art’ in sites of graffiti and its erasures. It is a project which is also engaged with painting’s own histories. Informed by strategies of non-objective art and intersecting with ‘zero gestures’ located in the urban environment. Urban Erasures takes as its starting point the ”...authentic fragment(s) of daily life...”(1) and poses the question: how can the spaces of art and of life be brought together in an abstract painting practice informed by interventions into the space of the city by artists who have worked to destabilize spatial conventions of both the city and the spaces of abstract painting?

Previously exhibited in Suite 20/21: Part Two, Dunedin Public Art Gallery curated by Lucy Hammonds. This is the first time the series has been exhibited in Tāmaki Makaurau.

~^(1) ^~Benjamin, W. (1978). The author as producer. In E. Jeohcott (Trans.), Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings(pp. 229). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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Alexandra Kennedy is a painter and lecturer in history and theory of art at the Dunedin School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her practice is located between painting and drawing; between object and process. Kennedy's project is also located within a context which engages with the zero gesture in painting, addressing the critical relevancy of painting and its ability to reflect upon and engage with its own histories. Appearing as random marks and erasures on a field which forms part of a larger, potentially limitless field, the works are suggestive of digital junk, voids and empty spaces and can be read as being in the middle of something, as process, as becoming.

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Two Rooms is a contemporary art exhibition venue located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces, the Project Room and the Long Room.

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Two Rooms contemporary art gallery in Auckland New Zealand
Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
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