Alisa Henriquez “Twist, Glide, Shine”
A.I.R. Gallery
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Twist, Glide, Shine is a solo exhibition by artist Alisa Henriquez. In her most recent assemblages and collages, Henriquez combines digital images drawn from popular media culture, art history, and autobiographical sources with a host of materials including paint, resin, glitter, and synthetic hair and fur. Recurring motifs such as heavily mascaraed eyes, glossed lips, hair, and images of the body tap on encoded meanings and myths, conjuring ideas of female fertility, sexuality, and desire, albeit through an often media biased lens.
The works capture the ongoing internal negotiation with media fragments and societal constructions of identity and beauty. The subject of the work becomes, not the individual images or their juxtaposition, but the act of looking and the constant figuring and problematizing of our relationship to these sources and the continual state of makeover culture they represent.
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Schedule
from October 11, 2019 to November 10, 2019
Opening Reception on 2019-10-11 from 18:00 to 20:00