Studio visit: Alexis McGrigg | Christie's
Studio visit: Alexis McGrigg Examining themes of identity, space and black existence, the contemporary artist works in a variety of media — including layered paintings using dye and charcoal — to explore ideas of Blackness as a multidimensional entity When Alexis McGrigg (b. 1989) was a young girl, she would sit on the front porch of her home in Omaha, Nebraska, and think that ‘somehow there was an alternate space I was supposed to exist in’. After graduating with a BFA in painting from Mississippi State University in 2012, she studied for an MFA at Texas Tech Un...
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