past exhibition
Ali Prosch
For Alraune, with love
03.11.16 - 03.30.16
Ali
Prosch
For
Alraune, with love
Opening
reception, Friday, March 11th, 7-10p
For
Alraune, with love considers
the role of woman as witch and her embodied relationship to the
domestic garden. Prosch explores related plant folklore, specifically
the legends of the Mandragora root and the Arbor Tristis (Tree of
Sorrow). Reflecting on these gendered visions offers connections
between witchcraft, the body in nature, and loss. The title of the
exhibition is drawn from the German novel Alraune,
a gothic tale inspired by the legend of the humanoid-shaped Mandrake
root. The exhibition’s fleshy palette sets the scene for an abject
carnality. The body is positioned as self-becoming rather than as the
object of desire typically found in androcentric cultures. For
Alraune, with love highlights
the power of disorder, grotesque beauty, and monstrous capability.
The exhibition includes new video, drawing, photography and sculpture
works.
Ali
Prosch is a Los Angeles based artist. She received her MFA from
CalArts in 2009 and her BFA from New World School of the Arts in
Miami, FL. Her work examines modes and historical contexts of female
representation. In much of her practice, Prosch takes cues from the
depiction of women in film with emphasis on the trope of the
monstrous feminine. She is also involved with collaborative projects,
such as the artist collective D3: Deliver, Document, Destroy. Her
work is in public and private collections including the Perez Art
Museum Miami (PAMM) and World Class Boxing. Exhibitions include:
Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC),
MOCA Geffen (LA), REDCAT, The Museum of Contemporary Art (North
Miami), Glendale College Art Gallery, Machine Project, Public
Fiction, UC Santa Barbara, New Jersey City University, University of
Texas, Georgia State University, Locust Projects (Miami), Fredric
Snitzer Gallery (Miami), Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo), and White Box
(NYC).
March
11 – 30, 2016
Contact:
aliprosch@gmail.com
The
artist will host a plant sale in the garden on Saturday, March 26th
to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 3 –
6pm.
