Alexis Rockman: Works on Paper

About David RimanelliHelen MolesworthTodd Bradway

Born in 1962 in New York where he lives and works Alexis Rockman has depicted a darkly surreal vision of the collision between civilization and nature often apocalyptic scenarios on a monumental scale for over three decades. Notable solo museum exhibitions include Alexis Rockman: Manifest Destiny at the Brooklyn Museum (2004) which traveled to several institutions including the Wexner Center for the Arts (2004) and the Rhode Island School of Design (2005). In 2010 the Smithsonian American Art Museum organized Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow a major touring survey of his paintings and works on paper. Concurrent with Rockmans 2013 exhibition at Sperone Westwater the Drawing Center mounted Drawings from Life of Pi featuring the artists collaboration with Ang Lee on the award-winning film Life of Pi. In 2018 Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle a major touring exhibition of large-scale paintings and watercolors as well as field drawings of the Great Lakes was on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum and traveled to institutions in the Great Lakes region including the Chicago Cultural Center the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University Weisman Art Museum and the Flint Institute of Arts. Rockmans work is represented in many museum collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; New Orleans Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Helen Molesworth is a curator and writer who recently hosted a podcast series called Recording Artists with The Getty. Her major exhibitions include: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art; Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 19331957; Dance/Draw; This Will Have Been: Art Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture and Work Ethic. She has organized monographic exhibitions of Moyra Davey Noah Davis Louise Lawler Steve Locke Anna Maria Maiolino Josiah McElheny Kerry James Marshall Catherine Opie Amy Sillman and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in Artforum Art Journal Documents and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence she serves as the Curator-in-Residence for the Anderson Ranch in Aspen. David Rimanelli began writing about art in 1988 and has chronicled developments in the New York art world for over two decades. From 1993 to 1999 he was a regular contributor to The New Yorker; since 1997 he has been a contributing editor at Artforum writing also for Bookforum Interview Texte zur Kunst Vogue Paris frieze The New York Times and Flash Art.