Alice Raymond: Earth

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About this Event

Like a walk among the mountains, it is for us to spot the signs of the landscape, to remain vigilant in the direction of the wind, to know how to follow the rhythm of the days despite our impatience for the dream panorama that the climb promises us. Recently, a global fracture forced us to take a closer look. A wall for some, a chasm for others, the fact remains that an obstacle must be crossed, and that it offers us the opportunity to look in other directions.

Artist Alice Raymond is looking for the artistic means to get around her impediments: inaccessible visas, canceled flights, mailing with uncertain deadlines. In this year 20-20, with a name as a duplication, Raymond is pushed to think “same but different”: locally, effectively, with confidence in others; exchange and share a better place in the artistic world.

With her new exhibition Earth, Raymond offers us a pictorial immersion in her making of territory, with matrices and projections, giving the visitor and collector the rare opportunity to travel a bit with the artist. The idea came to her with the memory of a David Hockney opening, during which she was able to find herself alone in the exhibition space while all the guests were sharing a drink at the reception … It was like a dream, an hour of imaginary walk with the old man. Respect for barrier gestures invites us to an intimate visit with the artist via the Internet at the time of your appointment. You will find yourself in an exhibition-lab, with works like routes of colorful lines, ethereal surfaces like impressions (In French, the word impression means both printing and impression.) and also works awaiting you for their finalization … Of the time of lock-down we found back the taste for DIY and the solutions for art made locally.

About the Artist

Born in the Paris region, Raymond grew up in Germany, then lived in Sweden before settling in the United States (Miami and San Francisco). After training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (painting & sculpture) and at the University of Visual Arts in Bordeaux, she became an Associate of Visual Arts and completed her interest in language, signs, and their transmission with a Master in Language Science in Grenoble.

Like her travels, Raymond creates artwork that interprets the processes of observation and adaptation to a space. The exploration of new territories takes shape in a personal cartography, representing the impact of places and the perception of the environment from a physical, social, and temporal point of view. In this sense, she is interested in the concept of the Anthropocene, and searches for possible signs forgotten in the landscapes which would help to a better understanding of the world. In an approach that is both methodical and playful, she tries to develop a visual vocabulary that bears witness to this.

Her research addresses issues of displacement, migration, habitat, ecology, and language through codification methods. Her artwork expresses itself in a wide range of techniques and explores essentially abstract artistic expressions with installations and participatory proposals that carry collective ideas, documentary photographs and drawings, paintings, and sculptures that she describes as linguistic documents.

Raymond’s artwork is presented in galleries and art centers in the United States and Europe, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in San Jose, and has developed during residencies like AIRIE (Artists In Residence In Everglades). She is in public collections in both countries (Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Artothèque de Pessac, AIRIE Everglades NPS, Miami Dade Public Library).

BoxHeart Visitor Information

Admission: Free and open to the public. The 1st floor (main gallery) of BoxHeart Gallery may be accessed using a ramp. The 2nd floor (gallery space) is handicap accessible by stair chair.

Gallery Hours (also available by Scheduled Visit): Sun, 1-5 pm; Wed – Thurs, 10-6 pm; Fri, noon – 4 pm; Sat, noon – 6 pm. BoxHeart Gallery is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

For general information or to schedule your visit, call 412.687.8858 or visit the gallery online at: www.boxheartgallery.com

To view the exhibition online, visit Alice Raymond: Earth beginning November 18th.