| Alyssa Lempesis: Gulp April 30 – May 14, 2016 Opening Reception: April 30, 7-10pm I had the pleasure of meeting Alyssa Lempesis in 2012 during our undergraduate time at UC Berkeley. Alyssa was in the year ahead of me and I saw her graduate and go off to UC Davis for her MFA. If you are a regular Venison reader. You might recognize Alyssa's work. We featured her right after she completed her MFA, in our Autumn 2014 issue, here. |  |
I was so excited to see that Alyssa got the jail cell residency at Alter Space! I remember thinking, 'Well there really can't be a more perfect artist for this strange underground cell. '
I visited Alyssa as she was wrapping up her 3 month time as resident artist at Alter space. We spoke about what she has been working on and I was very luck to be able to see early snippets of her video/ animation work, which will be a large aspect of her show: Gulp.
I was so exciting to see how her sculptures - which function like enlargements of something small - return to a miniaturized form. Strangely, it's through reducing the size that we are brought up-close through the lens and offered a magnification of these micro-ecosystems. Through the animation she is able to focus our attention onto the details which she herself is captivated by in the studio; the moments of play, discovery, and exploration. -Amber Imrie-Situnayake
I visited Alyssa as she was wrapping up her 3 month time as resident artist at Alter space. We spoke about what she has been working on and I was very luck to be able to see early snippets of her video/ animation work, which will be a large aspect of her show: Gulp.
I was so exciting to see how her sculptures - which function like enlargements of something small - return to a miniaturized form. Strangely, it's through reducing the size that we are brought up-close through the lens and offered a magnification of these micro-ecosystems. Through the animation she is able to focus our attention onto the details which she herself is captivated by in the studio; the moments of play, discovery, and exploration. -Amber Imrie-Situnayake
Show Statement:
Alyssa Lempesis works from imaginative speculation on uncanny ecologies in which microorganisms digest plastics and pure metal, and thrive in pockets of gut sludge. Converging the scientific and fantastical realm of organisms and processes, Gulp presents sculptural objects and animations driven by possibilities between alien imaginings and archaeological reconstructions. Lumpy masses and crusted fragments accumulate to create a world that exists somewhere between the unknown and familiar, the present and the future.
| Gulp Opens: April 30, 7-10pm April 30 – May 14, 2016 Alter Space Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday from 1-6pm Alter Space 1158 Howard Street San Francisco CA 94103 map |  |
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