ALEXA GERRITY grew up in upstate NY and in Viña del Mar, Chile. A presidential scholar at Stanford University, she received a BA in Art History, and in 2009 received an MFA from CalArts. She has studied art at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Italy and at MICA in Baltimore. Alexa is represented by The Company, Los Angeles, and her next solo show at The Company is slated for September 2012.
Since moving to Los Angeles, Gerrity has been particularly drawn to the effects of the alienating quality of the suburban landscape on identity. Through her lens of female subjectivity she examines desire, the relationship with the gaze and the condition of public spectacle and individual ambition. In painting, video and other media she incorporates constructed narratives and imagined realities to unwind the layers that conceal an identity anxiety.
Alexa Gerrity obsessively investigates subjectivity, always from the vantage of her gender, as well as an image-maker. This dichotomy, as both the gazed-upon and the gazer, infuses her work with a complex notion of femininity.
Since moving to Los Angeles, Gerrity has been particularly drawn to the effects of the alienating quality of the suburban landscape on identity. Through her lens of female subjectivity she examines desire, the relationship with the gaze and the condition of public spectacle and individual ambition. In painting, video and other media she incorporates constructed narratives and imagined realities to unwind the layers that conceal an identity anxiety.
Alexa Gerrity obsessively investigates subjectivity, always from the vantage of her gender, as well as an image-maker. This dichotomy, as both the gazed-upon and the gazer, infuses her work with a complex notion of femininity.
