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① Artwork:
Crowd Painting/I Missed the Crush of Bodies
In line with the artist's recent work, this painting revolves around spaces of ordinary intimacy and everything that lives in them. Her process involves painting from memory, sketching different moments collapsed into a single image, observation of objects, and making art based on written or oral descriptions from the artist or others.
After looking a lot at James Ensor’s Christ’s Entry Into Brussels, she wanted to make a painting of a crowd scene while also keeping in mind that, over the past few years, gathering with a large group—in a party or bar—wasn’t possible. As such, this drawing is like a vehicle to access memories of those sensations.
Bix Archer examines how the objects in her life retain traces of her past and current relationships. She collapses observation, experience, fantasy, and language within her pictures to represent experience as it is: fragmentary yet ever-evolving.
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③ Artist:
Bix Archer’s work revolves around spaces of ordinary intimacy and everything that lives in them. She examines how the objects in her life have retained traces of relationships—even ones that have since dissolved. This involves painting from memory, sketching different moments collapsed into a single image, observation of objects, and making art based on written or oral descriptions from the artist or others. Archer mixes observation, experience, fantasy, and language within her pictures to represent experience as it really is: fragmentary yet ever-continuing.
Bix Archer was born in 1997 in San Francisco, CA, and currently lives in New York City. She received her BA from Yale University in 2019.
Archer has mounted a recent solo show in the viewing room at Make Room in Los Angeles, CA (2022).
Her work was also included in group shows such as Urban Whispers, a collaborative exhibition with Make Room LA and WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong, China (2021); Nothing But Flowers at Quaid Gallery in Tampa Bay, FL (2021); and Porous Modes at Field Projects, New York (2021).
Archer was awarded the Ethel Childe Walker Prize at Yale University, and she was the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant in 2020.
In line with the artist's recent work, this painting revolves around spaces of ordinary intimacy and everything that lives in them. Her process involves painting from memory, sketching different moments collapsed into a single image, observation of objects, and making art based on written or oral descriptions from the artist or others.More
- Unframed
- Signed
