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ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITIONLisa Alonzo16Hernan Bas20Suzette Bross22Patricia Cazorla26Jesse Chun28Richard Deon32Lalla Essaydi34Carla Gannis36Scherezade Garcia42Katy Grannan44Copyright 2017Mona Hatoum46No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or byany means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the priorwritten permission of Lehman College Art Gallery.Meg Hitchcock48Alison Kuo52Cecilia Mandrile56Lothar Osterburg60Nancy Saleme26Nari Ward64Tricia Wright68This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition Alien Nationsorganized by Lehman College Art Gallery, February 7 to May 6, 2017.ISBN 978-0-692-95448-5Lehman College Art Gallery250 Bedford Park Boulevard WestBronx, New York, 10468lehmangallery.orgEditorial DirectorLinda LockeDesignAlexander StevovichPhotographersInstallation photographs Patricia Cazorla and Richard DeonEvent photographs Williamson BrasfieldCovers8FrontCarla Gannis. Re(presented) Oct 09 [Tortoise Shell Glasses], 2012Digital pigment print, edition of 5, detail. Courtesy of the artistBackRichard Deon. The Quick Response Squadron (sortie formation), 2017Four planes, each Coroplast, Signfoam, acrylic, vinyl graphic applique,and aluminum rod, 26 x 96 x 162 inches, each glider, 4 total. Courtesy of the artistOppositeTricia Wright. Late Mirror Stage, Lamp Shadow, 2013, detailAcrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches. Collection of the artistalien nationsCurators of the ExhibitionBartholomew F. Bland, Executive Director of the Lehman College Art Gallery,has conceptualized and organized more than 60 exhibitions.Yuneikys Villalonga, independent art critic and curator, contributes to Art Experience New York.

FundersLehman College Art GalleryAAlien Nations is made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support ofGovernor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,the Jarvis, Constance Doctorow Family Foundation and the New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund.Always free to the public, Lehman College Art Galleryhas been serving the interests of our diverse audiencefrom the Bronx and greater New York City since 1984.The gallery specializes in thematic group exhibitionsthat bring together famous artists with emerging talents.Education is an integral component of the Gallery’sprogramming and provides the basis of communityoutreach—from young students to senior citizens.CLehman College Art Gallery wishes to thank these individuals and institutions for their support:New York City Department of EducationNew York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City CouncilSU-CASA, supported by public funds from The New York City Council,in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Department of the AgingEElisabeth Lorin, Co-chairDr. José Luis Cruz, President, Lehman CollegeVincent W. Clark, Vice PresidentAdministration and Finance, Lehman CollegeSara BamberDavid BicksDannielle TegederMilton and Sally Avery Arts FoundationBartholomew F. Bland, Executive DirectorThe New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits FundLaura J A De Riggi, Curatorial AssistantThe Bronx BreweryMary Ann Siano, Grants AssociateThe Puffin Foundation Ltd.Hannah Brenner-Leonard, Education CenterChuck & Steve Feinroth (Bob’s Art Delivery)Miriam Quin, Patrick Rocchio & Robert Wirsing (Bronx Times)Claire Oliver (Claire Oliver Gallery)Kristin North (Edwynn Houk Gallery)Dolly Bross Geary (Geary Contemporary)Rebekah Chozick, Liz Malarkey, Daphne Takahashi (Lehmann Maupin Gallery)Elizabeth Chiappini, Peter Gynd & Lesley Heller (Lesley Heller Workspace)Donna Pagano, Thiago Szmrecsányi & Jason WellerLisa Herndon (Riverdale Press)Anya Melyantsev, Darcy Merante (Salon 94)Art & Sue Zuckerman (Z’s Travel and Leisure)Kevin RitterElba Rodriguez10Lehman College Art Gallery StaffThe Pierre and Tana Matisse FoundationTed Bonin, Laura Braverman & Kathryn Gile (Alexander and Bonin)alien nationsWVirginia Cupiola, Co-chairNew York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State LegislatureThanks To:OLDolly Bross GearyEdith and Herbert Lehman FoundationNBoard of TrusteesNew York City Council through the Honorable Andrew Cohen and the Bronx DelegationJarvis and Constance Doctorow Family FoundationKDGMENTS

OPENINGRAlien Nations opened Thursday, March 23, 2017,Efrom 5 to 8 pm, and it featured the foodCEPperformance Takeout Banquet by Alison Kuo.Visitors and food preparers were all a part ofthis performance―a ballet of conversation andconnection with others―active, impromptu, andTnourishing.IOpening visitors placed orders for takeout food.OTheir aims ―Nto eat good foodto dine conviviallyto welcome those who brought the food―often immigrants, who may never haveattended an art show opening.12alien nations

All people today feel the impact ofisolation within crowded communities, theabsence of face-to-face communication,and the bytes and metadata of unboundedtechnology. Political upheavals aroundthe globe spawn issues of dislocation anddisappearing resources that crisscrosscountries and continents, and reach deeplyinto the psychology of the individual, stirringIfear. Alien Nations at Lehman College ArtNGallery explores the ways artists conveyTpeople’s feelings of alienation and, at times,Rtheir mental and physical separation from theOsocieties to which they belong.DUArtists often voice awarenessof a troubling environment and in thisCexhibition 18 artists examine our senseTof being “plugged in” to a technology-Idrenched society, where nonstop instantOcommunication and thousands of onlineN“friends” can fragment our identity andmake us uncertain about our place in ashifting world. In the pages that follow yousee a broad range of media ― painting,photography, sculpture, installation, video,and performance documentation by emergingand established artists whose work showspeople struggling in today’s social disorder.They combine diverse materials andVisitors at the Opening of Alien Nations, February 7, 2017,and on next page14alien nations

intriguing ways and with a high degree of craft and concern foraesthetic beauty. Their powerful work, satirical, metaphorical, orpersonal, documents acute states of psychological anxiety and thedespair of their subjects, as well as their own engagement withtoday’s social issues.All the works in Alien Nations explore contemporaryforms of alienation—be they personal or collective, self-inflictedor enforced by others, drawn from real, historical models orfrom imagined creations. Nari Ward uses colorful, hand-dyedshoelaces in Angelic Troublemakers to comment on social protestin the nation’s conversation; Lalla Essaydi’s beautiful imagein Bullet Revisited #26 is an ironic contrast to war’s violence.Hernan Bas’s video, All By Myself, shows a man-who, isolated, retreats into self-pleasuringnarcissim. Katy Grannan photographs glamorous, unnamed women whose faces are undercutwith a sense of life’s despair.The theme of the “faceless figure” that runs through Alien Nations appears inworks by Carla Gannis, whose photographs show us the anxious psychological state. InRe(presented) Mar 25 [Block Head] and other prints, she pixilates the human face swampedout of existance by a sea of digital information. Cecilia Mandrile highlights the malleabilityof the self in One Other (The Desert Inside), as her faceless doll fruitlessly stares into a plateemblazoned with another staring face that cannot be seen or mirrored back. Likewise, TriciaWright’s Late Mirror Stage monochromatic mirror paintings are incapable of reflecting theviewer, suggesting both the pointlessness of vanity and a profound abnegation of self. In herphotography series Walk, Suzette Bross shows segmented, disembodied feet―selfies in whichindividual identity is swept away.16alien nations

Several of the artists use images to show language canScherezade Garcia paints inner tubes with cheering travelbring us feelings of disjointed isolation. Meg Hitchcock discouragessymbols, ironically speaking to the plight of desperate refugeesus from reading her image Prayer Cloth #2 by ignoring punctuationvoyaging to an unknown place on flimsy rafts. Jesse Chun’sand spacing in the sentences she forms. Our perception of beingBlueprints #1-25 presents the ghostly outlines of immigration andlost in translation, of meaning rendered meaningless, is echoedpassport applications that we instantly recognize as symbols ofby Lothar Osterburg in City of Towers, prints that show pridefuldemanding bureaucracy.builders of a tower punished by suddenly speaking a myriad oflanguages, which renders them incomprehensible to one another.With irony and humor, other artists ridicule military threats,The subjects of Alien Nations hearken back to the ancient,ironic Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” Ourtimes are turbulent, dangerous, and certainly interesting. Thevague or real. Mona Hatoum’s photograph Over My Dead BodyLehman College Art Gallery recognizes that art has transformativeshows her face in profile, a tiny toy soldier sitting on her nose.power to promote awareness, provoke dialogue, and inspireThe artist’s angry, alienating glare makes war seem small andaction. Art has the power to shift public sentiment and beginpowerless, even something laughable . In the Gallery’s Rotunda,conversations about our most pressing social issues. We hope thethe four planes in Richard Deon’s The Quick Response Squadron,artists of Alien Nations create this conversation with our visitorscircle aimlessly, despite the crosshairs of bomb targets that lineand begin to unpack today’s moments of anxiety.the wall. We intuit the ominous bomb blast, too, in Lisa Alonzo’sWaste/Repetition and Repetition/Waste that present the 2011nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Power Plant, but her “bombblast” rings incongruously look like the sugar roses that are pipedBartholomew F. Bland, Executive Director, Lehman College Art GalleryYuneikys Villalonga, independent critic and curator2017onto a birthday cake.Immigrating, seeking elusive opportunity in an unknownplace, brings real dislocation and isolation that provides morematter for the artists. In DeFence, Patricia Cazorla and NancySaleme create a slatted fence, painting its surface with imagesof migrant laborers toiling in fields, their harvest, not for them,will be laid upon a dining table to be enjoyed by privileged others.Alison Kuo’s video Takeout Banquet looks at the immigrantexperience with food from another perspective―working withfast food. In Theories of Freedom: Golden Landscape,18alien nationsJessie Chun. Landscape #10, 2014, detailPigment print, edition of 3, 30 x 60 inchesCourtesy of the artist

LisaAlRepetition/Wasteo2016, Acrylic and molding paste piped on panel, 55 x 46 x 3 inches each, detailnLisa Alonzo fills her color-saturated images with a sensezof the ominous. Black-and-white concentric circles, mirror imagesOof each other, suggest rounded targets as well as the radiating energyof a bomb blast. Both works were inspired by the nuclear disasterat Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 thatwas caused by an earthquake. The social dislocation that followedcontinues today. Despite these deeply disturbing associations, the“bomb-blast rings” look like the frosted sugar roses that are pipedonto a birthday cake, but Alonzo made them here, not with frosting butwith a thick palette of paint. From a distance, her two panels appearas sinister scenes of domestic destruction. Up close, their cheerful andcolorful detail mesmerizes.20alien nations

, Acrylic and molding paste piped on panel, 55 x 46 x 3 inchesCourtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery22alien nations

HERNANBASAll By Myself2014, Single-channel video projection, b/w, silent duration: 1 minute, 30 secondsEdition of 10, AP 1/2,Above, detailCourtesy of Lehmann Maupin GalleryBas humorously engages with the single person, an unenvied statethat may come from a sense of societal alienation, and resulting ina turning towards self-pleasuring narcissism. His video fades in andout, making the figure of himself, its protagonist, a shadowy presencewho defiantly faces the corner of the wall, a variation on the “dunce”posture traditionally demanded by dissatisfied classroom teachers.Here, though, the lone figure strokes, touches, and seemingly“makes out” with his own body. Playing with the ideas of “to thine ownself be true” and Oscar Wilde’s famous bon mot, “to love oneself is thebeginning of a lifelong romance,” Bas creates a work that extolsself-comfort and a refusal to engage others, and that anticipates theisolation and self-centeredness that are the hallmarks of many onlineand social media interactions.24alien nations

SUZETTEWalk 3/12/14BRStud Horse Point, Utah, 2014 (2:41:16-3:12:34 pm)Photographs, 45 x 34 inchesAbove, detailOBross’s series shows segmented, disembodied feet―the images aSbursting stream of quickly taken selfies. The photographs obliterateSindividual identity, just as they function as distancing portraiture.Focusing on the solitary nature of walking as a creative act, the artistshows this most universal of movements as both alienating andcomforting. The solitary walk traditionally invites reflection, as well asengagement―activities now increasingly interrupted by the vibratingcall of the ubiquitous cell phone and other digital technologies. In thesephotographs, walking―the hallmark of the urban-loving flâneur―isbroken into a fragmented experience, while its propulsive forwardmovement empowers.26alien nations

SUZETTEBROSSWalk 1/20/13Walk 2/5/14Snowstorm, Tuileries Garden, Paris, 2014 (5:35:21-5:56:46 pm)Photograph, 45 x 34 inchesAstor Street, Snowstorm, Chicago, 2014 (9:11:40-9:12:38 am)Photograph, 45 x 34 inchesCourtesy of Geary Contemporary28alien nations

PATRNIACNICAYDeFence: The Installation2015, Handwritten table settings, objects (glass, ceramic and aluminum),chandelier and table, size variable, 78 3/4 x 23 5/8 x 27 1/2 inches (table)DeFence2010, Charcoal pencil, ink, permanent markers, liquid silver leaf and acrylicon handmade wooden fence, 72 x 144 x 3 inchesCSAAZLOEcreated a slatted fence and painted its surface with images ofRMmigrant laborers who toil in fields that contrast with surroundingLElush greenery. The artists suggest that the laborers’ harvest is notACollection of the artistsImmigration, migrant labor, and the subsequent sense of dislocationand isolation infuse Cazorla’s and Saleme’s DeFence. They havefor them, but rather to be enjoyed by privileged others at an adjoiningdining table. The table, which appears luxurious but formal and cold, islaid with plates and cutlery decorated with an unique and unreadablehandwriting that Saleme draws from her Latin-Arabic heritage. Sheuses script to depict hidden sentiments and secrets in a public setting,and her words carry bits of phrases that act as diaries, lamentations,or unsent letters, traces of nostalgia that all migrants carry with them.30alien nations

JESSECHUNSublimely verdant, Chun’s landscapes could be inspired by thepaintings of 19th-century British artist J.M.W. Turner or Thomas Cole,“Father of the Hudson River School.” Careful examination, however,reveals the strangely pixilated nature of Chun’s three prints that areembedded with wavy lines that are reflective of the design of nationalcurrencies. Abstracted into landscapes, their country of origin is notLandscape #8 (Top)2014, Pigment print, edition of 7, 20 x 30 inchesLandscape #102014, Pigment print, edition of 3, 30 x 60 inchesLandscape #15 (Opposite)2013, Pigment print, edition of 3, 51 x 40 inches32alien nationsapparent. In fact, Chun based her bucolic images on the design ofanother crucial political document ― the passport ― most nationsissue to their citizens. Though her pieces suggest both a nation’snatural beauty and corresponding nationalism, ultimately these worksrecognize the alienating division that comes from the artificial bordersdrawn between countries by their governments.

JESSECHUBlueprints #1 – 25 (Grid View)N2016, Twenty-three layered pigment prints on blueprint vellum paper11 x 8 1/2 inches each, edition 1/3Above, detailChun’s Blueprints #1 - 25 show the ghostly outlines of immigrationand passport applications from around the world. Layered uponeach other are boxes, dashes, and lines that are stripped of theirlocators and specificity to become a welter of shapes we can instantlyrecognize as symbols of a grinding and alienating global bureaucracy.The evocative grids that mutely and relentlessly demand our personalinformation provoke our instant anxiety.Courtesy of the artist34alien nations

RICHARDDEThe Quick Response Squadron (sortie formation)2017, Four planes, each Coroplast, Signfoam, acrylic,vinyl graphic applique, and aluminum rod26 x 96 x 162 inches, 43 lbs each glider, 4 totalAbove, detail of the installation in the Lehman College Art Gallery RotundaCourtesy of the artistA vague military threat that Deon renders both ridiculous and ominouscharacterizes The Quick Response Squadron. Four planes circleOoverhead in endless roundelay, without direction. Deon shows aNlife-size male figure he derives from a prototype seen in 1950s’American history textbooks, which he merges with the form of aWorld War II airplane. The stiff conformity of both the men and theplanes suggests the proverbial “Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” whois subsumed by the nonproductive activity of office politics. Like thatmisdirected man the planes circle aimlessly, despite the crosshairs ofbomb targets that line the wall. For them the purpose of the mission isnot apparent. Deon suggests the target is irrelevant or undefined.Is this mission a closely held secret or a casual mistake?36alien nations

LALLAESSAYBullets Revisited #262014, Photograph, three panels, 24 x 20 inches eachCourtesy of Edwynn Houk GalleryDEssaydi, raised in Morocco and Saudi Arabia, now lives in theIUnited States, where she portrays the lives of women in today’s Islamicsociety. In Bullet Revisited #26, the artist creates a scene where boththe figures and the background are covered in shimmering bullet casesthat at first appear as opulent chased bronze but are really reminders ofthe violence and war today’s society experiences. Her reference to warcontrasts with the beauty of her images. In this photograph a sensuousfigure, immersed in her own concerns, turns her face towards the wall.She rejects the gaze of the viewer as does the male figure, also alone ina corner, who is presented by Hernan Bas in his video, All By Myself.38alien nations

carlagannRe(presented) Nov 23 [Orange and Yellow]i2012, Digital pigment print, edition of 5, 42 x 43 inchessPortraiture is the traditional vehicle for the rich and the great to asserttheir identity and their power―the face and stance of the personpainted on canvas reassured the sitter and the viewers who looked forlikenesses of their leaders. But the figures in Gannis’s photographsliterally dissolve, dissipated in a sea of a thousand selfies, which seemto render portraiture strangely meaningless. Like the overexposedmovie star, an individual’s soul is threatened ― stolen or lost ― by thealways observing eye of the camera lens which documents. “Big Brother”now comes in a very small package.40alien nations

CARLAGARepresented Oct 09 (Tortoise Shell Glasses)N2012, Digital pigment print, edition of 5, 42 x 43 inchesNIRe(presented) Mar 25 [Block Head]S2012, Digital pigment print, edition of 5, 42 x 43 inchesMoving from the broad social spectrum to an anxious interiorpsychological state, Gannis, in Re(presented) Mar 25 [Block Head],depicts the human face literally pixilated out of existence―obliteratedin a sea of digital information. For Gannis the disappearance of theface―invisible, eradicated, or in some way blocked from view―is themanifestation of alienation. Gannis, a professor at Pratt Institute’sDepartment of Digital Art, embraces technology in her work andqueries what digital communication is doing to our interior selves andto our exterior relationships.42alien nations

CARLAGANNISRe(presented) May 06 [Doppleganger]2012, Digital pigment print, edition of 5 ,12 x 12.5 inchesRe(presented) Jan 24 [Headphones Version 2] (Opposite)2011, Digital pigment print, edition of 5,12 x 12.5 inchesRe(presented) Nov 27 [Smart Phone] (Opposite, Bottom)2012, Digital pigment print, edition of 5,12 x 12.5 inchesCourtesy of the artist44

SCHEREZADEGARCIATheories of Freedom: Golden Landscape2010-2017, Inner tubes in a variety of sizes, dipped in gold paint (sprayed),blue acrylic, safety ties, and airport tags, dimensions variableAbove, detailCourtesy of the artistPointed social commentary can be appealing to the eye. Garciacreates beautiful art from a modest object―the inner tube. Her deeplypoignant installation made from inner tubes, sprayed in gold paintand painted with waves and hand-painted travel tags, looks bright andcheerful but actually speaks to the high toll paid by desperate refugeeswho may lose their lives or undergo frightening hardship as theyvoyage to a new place on the most flimsy of rafts.46alien nations

KATYGRANNANAnonymous, Modesto, CA, 20122012, Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper mounted to PlexiglasEdition 2 of 3, 39 x 29 inchesAnonymous, Los Angeles, 20082010, Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper mounted to PlexiglasEdition 3 of 3, 26 1/2 x 19 inchesGrannan depicts unnamed women who stand alone against blankwhite backgrounds beneath the blinding California sun. They presentfacades of addled glamour undercut by a strong sense of life’s despair.Though the artist’s empathy for these lost women comes through, theunrelenting eye of her camera also reveals their psychological distressand places them in a blank landscape that is isolated from society and,by extension, the American Dream.Courtesy of Salon 9448alien nations

MONAHATOUOver My Dead BodyM2005, Heliogravure, MOH-05-PR-005, 27 x 39 1/4 inches, edition of XXXVCourtesy of Alexander and BoninHatoum’s Over My Dead Body is a humorous take on the idea of themilitary threat. Hatoum photographs her face in profile, a tiny toysoldier sitting on her nose. The artist’s angry glare makes the terrorsof war seem small and powerless, even something to laugh at, in theface of individual determination. The image also slyly plays on ideasof gender. The male soldier, a universal symbol of aggression andprotection, is rendered powerless and ridiculous by a scowlingfemale visage.50alien nations

MEGHIPrayer Cloth No. 2: A Prayer to YamantakaT2016, Letters cut from the Bible30 x 22 1/4 inchesCHCOPrayer Cloth No. 3: Prayer for the State of Israel2016, Letters cut from the Koran22 1/2 x 17 1/2 inchesCSeveral of the artists in Alien Nations look at how language can createKa sense of disjointed isolation and distance. In Prayer Cloth No. 3:Prayer for the State of Israel, Hitchcock forms an image of a Jewishprayer cloth by cutting out thousands of letters from the Koran ―religious-based text works that literally dissect the Word of God.She discourages her audience from reading the actual text becauseshe does not punctuate or space the strange sentences she forms,tempting the viewer to pick out stray legible phrases, isolated fromtheir broader context. Hitchcock’s work gives new meaning to the idea“lost in translation.”52alien nations

MEGHITCHCOCK61 Mantras2016, Letters cut from the Bible and threads from Tibetan prayer flags, 14 x 18 inchesRed Lotus Mantra (Opposite)2016, Letters cut from the Bible, threads from Tibetan prayer flags and pages torn from the Bible9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inchesOpposite below, detailCourtesy of Studio 10 Gallery54alien nations

ALISONTakeout Banquet, March 232017, Performance at the Lehman College Art Gallery, March 23Chinese takeout menus, 250 cashKuo is a New York-based artist, originally from Texas, who hasKUObecome known for her performances revolving around food. HerTakeout Banquet performance allowed participating visitors atthe Alien Nations opening reception to place their own orders fortakeout food, interact with other guests as orders were negotiated,and meet the people who delivered the food ― often immigrantswho may never have attended an art show opening. Kuo’s process ofbringing people together included visiting each of the participatingrestaurants before the opening to explain her project and towelcome the delivery people to take part. The interactive qualityof this performance sparked unexpected conversations whichwere continually monitored by the artist. The standard rituals of acontemporary art opening were disrupted and transfored into aninteractive and ultimately nourishing experience.56alien nations

ALISONKUTakeout OuttakeO2017, Digital video, 5:45 minutesKuo’s video looks at the immigrant experience from another “foodperspective” ― making and creating the “fast food,” so sought afterby the people of their new country. Rather than focus on the grindinglabor necessary to produce the vast quantities of consumable foodgenerated by fast-food workers, often immigrants, on the lowest socioeconomic rungs of society, Kuo ― through closeups, slow motion, andstunning colors― sensualizes the typically mundane experience ofseeing and tasting fast food. The artist demonstrates exceptional abilityto find an almost erotic beauty in the ordinary staples of daily life.Courtesy of the artist58alien nations

CECILIAMANSilence Between Hands (El silencio en las manos)2000-2013, soft sculpture, suitcases, breathing machine. 13 x 15 x 12 inchesInstallation with suitcases, variable dimensionsDMandrile tops a pile of suitcases with a fragile-looking, swaddledR“child-doll.” In this figure she aims to create a symbol of transienceIand immigration, but also of gentle care. The figure does not connoteLhelp or hope. It is a ghostly figure, a fading silkscreen, and a harbingerEof death. Though its wire arms are skeletal, the artist does suggest“a breath” of hope in the figure’s mechanical inhaling. The vieweris called on to activate the sculpture by pressing its sternum, whichstarts a labored breathing that lasts only a few seconds. The artistshows that our own agency can provide dramatic change for the mostvulnerable members of society. Mandrile suggests that tender care canresuscitate life in the lifeless.60alien nations

CECILIAMAOne Other (The Desert Inside)N2007-2014, Soft sculpture, screen-print transferred image onto plate, handmade carrying bag65 x 32 x 14 inchesAbove, detailDRMandrile highlights the thematic thread of the “faceless figure” thatILruns through the works in Alien Nations. Facelessness symbolizesEthe malleability of a fragile self-identity. In One Other, a faceless childstares fruitlessly into a plate emblazoned, in turn, with a staring facethat cannot be seen or mirrored back. In Mandrile’s hands, humanidentity becomes a void. The child sits on a cloth that can be rolled upand used as a carryall, so is the symbol of a figure constantly on themove ― or on the run. If geography is destiny, Mandrile questions howthe nomad claims an identity. Does the sense of self shift as does thegeography over which the nomad travels?Collection of the artist62alien nations

LOTHAROSTERCity of TowersB2015, Gum print on Arches watercolor paper, mounted, 40 x 30 inchesU“Lost in translation,” meaning made meaningless, is echoed inROsterburg’s City of Towers series, which shows a rising landscapeG(clearly inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Tower of Babel) in whichthe prideful builders of a tower designed to reach the heavens arepunished by suddenly speaking a myriad of languages, which renderthem incomprehensible to one another. This biblical alienation is givenan Expressionist science-fiction aesthetic complete with a dirigiblesimilar to the famed 1927 German film Metropolis, which envisions anightmarish and alienated view of the future.64alien nations

LOTHAROSTERBURGThe Tower: In the Clouds2015, Photogravure on Somerset White, edition of 12, 16 x 15 inchesReturn to the Tower2015, Photogravure on Somerset White, edition of 8, 34 x 28 1/2 inchesCourtesy of Lesley Heller Workspace66alien nations

NARIWAGreat Reburn2012, Plexiglass, aluminum, linen, flag ash, gesso, and aluminet shade cloth40 x 64 x 17 inchesAbove, detailRDWard shows a monochromatic image of the American flag encasedin Plexiglas, and so beyond touch. The aluminum lines suggestbarbed wire to keep the viewer away from the flag which literallybecomes “hands off.” The encasement suggests the flag is preciousbut contested and protected as well, but from what and whom? Asthe title references, Ward created the work from the ash of an actualburned American flag which in his newly created artwork may meanthe idea of America is like a phoenix rising from the ashes, howevercompromised. Ward tips his hat to the stillness and monochromaticaspect of Pop Artist Jasper Johns’s famous White Flag (1955), anotherwork imbued with mixed emotions that swirl around patriotism68alien nations

NARIWARAngelic TroublemakersD2016, Shoelaces, 108 x 163 x 3 1/2 inchesMartin Luther King said that “the arc of the moral universe is long, butit bends towards justice.” Ward reminds us, with the phrase AngelicTroublemakers, that people who are often “angelically,” or morallyin the right are frequently perceived as “troublemakers,” threateningto upset the social order. Ward uses shoelaces, modest objects, andpainstakingly drills and inserts them into hundreds of holes, whichmakes the work appear like giant embroidery. His work is a reflectionon dramatic social change that is the product of joint, systematic andprolonged effort.Courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery70alien nations

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