Alexi Worth: States will be closing on Saturday, June 15, 2013 at DC Moore Gallery in NYC.
Alexi Worth presents his most ambitious exhibition yet, made in the distinctive mesh-based idiom that he has developed over the past three years. On view in the main gallery are large images of private and public subjects: solitary smokers, wine-drinkers, crumpled texts, and crowds of protesters in damaged cities. Thanks in part to the "physical halftone" of the mesh support, Worth's paintings have a tonal delicacy and flat depth reminiscent of print and photographic media. And yet their willful proportions show their origins as freehand drawings, both "hand-made and mind-made."
A 2009 Guggenheim fellow, Alexi Worth was cited by Roberta Smith in a 2010 article about the continued relevance of painting. Worth's last exhibition at DC Moore was named one of Artforum's best shows of 2011. As in that show, several new paintings feature fingertips sinking into crumpled sheets of paper-an emblem of dissatisfaction, of failure, of starting over. In the recent versions, the paper is a printed text. Deformed words and phrases twist across the picture plane, suggesting the random connections of a mind under pressure.DC Moore Gallery is located at 535 West 22nd Street, New York, NY. Call 212-247-2111 for more information, or email info@dcmooregallery.com. DC Moore Gallery specializes in contemporary and twentieth-century art. The Gallery is open from Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm.
Artwork: Alexi Worth, Square II, 2013. Acrylic on nylon mesh, 48 x 68 inches.
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