Alexandra Grant and Steve Roden: "These Carnations Defy Language" @ PMCA

ON VIEW JUNE 14–NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Alexandra Grant and Steve Roden: “These Carnations Defy Language” began as a conversation about Mute Objects of Expression, an anthology by the French poet Francis Ponge. This exhibition presents new individual and co-created works that highlight both artists’ use of textual sources and conceptual systems to inspire and structure their work.

Grant’s paintings from her new series Antigone 3000 explore and map the Greek myth from its original basis in Sophocles’s text to a current exchange with poet and artist Kate Durbin. Roden introduces a new body of work titled snowbirds don’t fly, a response in painting, drawing, and video to various significant childhood images, experiences, and encounters.

Alexandra Grant and Steve Roden: “These Carnations Defy Language” is organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and is supported by the PMCA Board of Directors, PMCA Ambassador Circle, and the Pasadena Art Alliance. This exhibition features a brochure with an essay by Leslie Jones, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings at LACMA.

http://pmcaonline.org/exhibitions/alexandra-grant-and-steve-roden-these-carnations-defy-language/

Images: (1) I was born to love not to hate (3), 2015. Mixed media on paper backed with fabric, 126” x 72”. Courtesy of Alexandra Grant. Photo credit: Brian Forrest. (2) The Sky Crying Is, 2015, by Steve Roden. Acrylic, collage, and pencil on paper, 41” x 60”. Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and CRG Gallery, NY