Alix Pearlstein MFA ’88
Alix Pearlstein’s practice spans the fields of performance, video, installation, sculpture and collage.
Across these, Pearlstein employs mis-en-scène to propose connections through history, form and association. She often works with modular figurative objects, both handmade and readymade, as well as with ensemble groups of actors, mining their professional skills and personal dramas for points of connection or dissonance.
Whether staging interactions between groups of people or groups of things, her works explore human subjectivity through relationships, behavior, character, power dynamics and social constructs, to highlight moments where the psychological and spatial overlap.
Pearlstein’s work has been widely exhibited internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; ASHES/ASHES, NYC; UK Art Museum, Lexington KY; Upfor Gallery, Portland OR; On Stellar Rays, NYC; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Samson, Boston; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; CAM, St. Louis; The Kitchen, NYC, Lugar Comum, Lisbon, Portugal; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Performances have been seen at Aspen Art Museum; Art Basel, Miami Beach; The Park Avenue Armory, and Salon 94, NYC.
Selected group exhibitions include Parrish Art Museum, NY; FRONT Triennial, Cleveland, OH; Whitechapel Gallery, London; ParaSite, Hong Kong; The New Museum, NYC; INOVA, Milwaukee; MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam, Israel; Internationale D’Art De Quebec; Annual Exhibition of Visual Art, Ireland; The Whitney Museum, NYC; SMAK, Ghent, Belgium; Biennale de Lyon, France; Stedjelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
Pearlstein is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists Award. She has been on Skowhegan’s Board of Governors since 2004, currently serving as co-chair. She lives and works in NYC and Orient, NY.