CM
About Alexander Harristhal:
I was born and raised in Minneapolis, graduating high school from the Perpich Center for Arts Education, in the visual arts department in 2012. I moved to Brooklyn in 2012 and received my BFA from the Pratt Institute for Fine Art with a concentration in drawing in 2016.
‘Blocking’ Now Showing at Rubine Red Gallery
CM: What does the title ‘Blocking’ refer to? And what can you tell us about the content it represents?
Alex Harristhal: The content is inspired by what I’m interacting with every day, either in my apartment or at the wood shop, where I work. I use collage to bring them to an almost surreal place and apply meaning to them the way that a figure holds meaning in a painting, because I see them as symbiotic of each other. And that’s where the title ‘Blocking’ is coming from — where the objects are dictating the narrative and the feeling and the sensation as much as the figures and their demeanor. (I’m) trying to show the meaning that we attach to our surroundings and how, when you see them, they have an effect on you. They’re nearly as important as the person that you’re with. Whether it be just you or the person that you’re interacting with. (The content represents) the kind of meaning that we attach to spaces in a good or a bad way.
Where: Rubine Red Gallery
When: February 27-March 22, 2021