Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes
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Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes
Americas Society presents the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Argentine artist Alejandra Seeber in New York, starting June 5. Seeber (b. 1969, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a painter who centers representations of various spaces to explore the tension between representation and abstraction in painting. Seeber utilizes bold color and gesture to examine liminal spaces within built and domestic environments. Later work veers further into abstraction, implementing visual devices like Rorschach drawings or knit grids to structure the composition.
The exhibition pairs these paintings with Seeber’s contemporary explorations of the built landscape with an installation. This survey of her work is organized around a playable golf course installed inside the gallery space in which visitors will be invited to play golf as they walk through the show. The golf obstacles become active sculptures in the exhibition, creating porous boundaries between artwork and audience. This playful environment manifests the explorations of edges, doorways, windows, and borders in the artist’s painting. As they play, visitors will be able to trace Seeber’s artistic trajectory and see how her interventions in the form and practice of painting continue to this day.
To accompany the show, we will present a series of public programs and publish a catalogue.
This exhibition is curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin.
Minigolf production: Iair Rosenkranz
Minigolf mats: Lalana Rugs by Florencia Cherñajovsky
The exhibition will be on view June 5 to July 27. View gallery and visitors information here.
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This project will be the third exhibition in an ongoing series focusing on understudied or underrepresented women and women-identifying artists from the Americas, which began in 2022 with an exhibition of Mexican sculptor Geles Cabrera and continued in 2023 with an exhibition on Chilean interdisciplinary artist Sylvia Palacios Whitman.
Interior with fgt, 1996. Oil on canvas, 38 x 47 inches (96 x 119 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Plantambor, 2021. Oil on canvas, 59 x 47 inches (150 x 119 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Huge Knitt, 2017. Oil on canvas, 86 x 84 inches (218 x 213 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Sculptures, Mirror, Pineapple, Presence, 2023. Oil on canvas. 79 x 70 inches (200.6 x 177.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Interior with On! tKdotW!, 2008. Oil on canvas. 36 x 48 inches (92 x 122 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
le Corbusier tropical, 2008. Oil on canvas. 36 3/5 x 46 4/5 inches (93.5 x 113 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Major support for Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes is provided by Globant. The exhibition is also supported by GMA Capital, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and Ariel Sigal.
Americas Society acknowledges the generous support of our Arts of the Americas Circle members: Amalia Amoedo, Almeida e Dale Galeria de Arte, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, Antonio Murzi, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Marco Pappalardo and Cintya Poletti Pappalardo, Carolina Pinciroli, Erica Roberts, Patricia Ruiz-Healy, Sharon Schultz, and Edward J. Sullivan.
In conjunction with Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes, the artist speaks with Beto De Volder on painting and golf, trophies and celebrations.
In conjunction with exhibition Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes, three artists discuss their practice and the 2000s New York art scene.
Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes Pocket Book
This fully illustrated publication accompanies the Americas Society exhibition on the Argentine artist that runs from June 5 through July 27, 2024.
The arts magazine adds the exhibit on their "Five New York Shows to See Before June Ends'' list and highlights its "interactive mini golf course."
"Las pinturas de Seeber exploran la tensión entre representación y abstracción", dice la revista de arte contemporáneo.
"It encapsulates the tension between abstraction and representation, all under one roof," writes Impulse about Americas Society's new exhibit.
"The artist challenges the idea of interior and exterior by incorporating an artificial landscape inside the art gallery," says the art website.
La muestra "está compuesta por pinturas, textiles y un minigolf para que los visitantes puedan 'estrenarse' en el deporte", dice el diario argentino.
The exhibition, which opens on June 5, features the Argentine artist's paintings and textiles, as well as a minigolf course where visitors can play.