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Alyssa Dennis Exhibition: Amalgamation

wrote August 31, 2011

Integration Attempt by Alyssa Dennis

On September 8th, Baltimore-based artist Alyssa Dennis will be opening her first New York solo exhibition, Amalgamation.  Amalgamation is a collection meticulous drawings that explores bricolage and “anti-fixed” space,  revealing Dennis’s interest in architecture modularity and the built environment.

 

September 8th for the opening of Amalgamation, the first New York solo exhibition for Baltimore-based artist Alyssa Dennis. In a collection of meticulously constructed drawings that echo her interest in the modularity of architecture and the built environment, Dennis explores avenues of bricolage and “anti-fixed” space.

According to Gallery Director, Christina Ray, “Alyssa Dennis is assisting Swoon on large-scale public and museum projects, and it was she who pointed Dennis out to us as a young artist with a great deal of promise in her practice.”

The exhibition includes a color catalogue with an interview between Swoon and Dennis.

Swoon: It’s funny that you mention wondering what you would do if you had to construct your own conditions of survival as being something that had a big impact on your work. One of the things that I find interesting about your work is the quality it has of exploring both our potential to build our own environments as we imagine them in the outside world, and also the construction of psychological spaces. Can you talk a little bit about about both of those potentials?
Alyssa Dennis: I think theorizing about architecture on a psychological level is good practice. We need to be able to daydream about our environment and how it affects our daily interactions – and consider that we are solely responsible for those outcomes. I also think it’s what’s lacking in the professional field. I feel there is always a formula and obviously a professional architect has to think about engineering and how a building will stand…I don’t. The practicality of construction can be a limitation. Ultimately I feel my role as an artist is to be an architectural critic and in this sense I am very much interested in Situationist ideas and the questioning of the urban construct. Also, I believe my work tries to engage an aspect of the ritual surrounding the construction site/process as if it were some kind of mythic practice.

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