SAY IT WITH A BLACK ROSE. Alison Veit

About

slavish me

slavishly, she surrendered
to what felt like imminent doom,
imminent death

she waited once
for it to change
for it to pass

but it seems that that which is imminent
will always occur, and slavish me
how I envy her

Alison Veit (b. 1989) lives and works in Los Angeles. Previous solo exhibitions include “I Can’t Read” at Chin’s Push, Los Angeles; and “Déjà Voodoo” at Important Projects, Oakland. Her work has also been exhibited at Queer Thoughts, in Nicaragua and Chicago; and previously at Bodega, Philadelphia. Veit’s painting takes as its primary medium a combinaiton of ink and hydrocal, reinvigorating painting’s ancient relationship with architecture, namely the fresco and secco techniques. In the former, pigment is embeded into the surface in a wet-on-wet process; while the latter requires pigment to be applied to the surface of a dry support. This is her first solo exhibition in New York City.