Work samples
About Alex
Dream Sellers 2020
Consider the life peddled to you - through pervasive cultural bias, gender stereotypes, and capitalism. The way your home looks, how you clothe yourself, access to nature and beauty. These are all topics ripe in the works of Alex Ebstein and Amy Boone-McCreesh. Dream Sellers examines the markers of success through the lens of societal pressures. Artists have long held mirrors to the worlds in which they live and Ebstein and Boone-McCreesh visually unravel what it means to exist today in a series of tactile, mixed media works. Topics including body shape preferences, advertising, slick store displays, and domestic life are pulled apart to question long held assumptions on class and the notion of upward mobility.
Alex Ebstein’s work, created in small series, expands upon her work transforming yoga mats and powder coated metal into images of eyes, curves, limbs - literal and abstracted. Much of the work has been made in a small, apartment studio since quarantine began and evinces a reflection of ad-punctuated virtual windows into the outside world in contrast with the solitary reality of an isolated routine. Figments and artifacts of glamour and group fitness hover over tactile, surfaces, embellished with embroidery, acrylic and other materials. In a world mediated through social media, aspiration and intention mingle with the dreamy, indulgent space of diary, time capsule and stasis. As the ways in which we interact are interrupted and reexamined, constraining pressures such as female competition and trends in health and beauty become flimsy symbols disengaged from their power to divide.
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Dream Sellers - InstallationInstallation view of Dream Sellers at Victori + Mo Gallery Summer 2020
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ShadowsHand-Cut Yoga Mats, Faux Eyelashes, Embroidery, Powder Coated Aluminum and Hardware on Panel In Custom Frame with glazing 36" x 24" 2020
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FigmentsHand-Cut Yoga Mats, Embroidery, Faux Eyelashes, Nylon, Acrylic, Powder Coated Aluminum and Hardware on Panel In Custom Frame under Glazing 36" x 24" 2020
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PhantomsHand-Cut PVC Yoga Mats, Faux Eye Lashes, Powder Coated Aluminum, Embroidery, Nylon and Hardware on Panel In Custom Frame with glazing 36" x 24" 2020
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Installation View 2 Dream SellersInstallation View of Dream Sellers at Victori + Mo Gallery Summer 2020
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Rooted Limb 1Yoga Mats, Powder Coated Aluminum and Hardware on Wood Panel 30" x 24" 2019
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Rooted Limb 2Yoga Mats, Powder Coated Aluminum and Hardware on Panel 30" x 24" 2019
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Rooted Limb 3Yoga Mats, Powder Coated Aluminum and Hardware on Panel 30" x 24" 2019
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Installation ViewDream Sellers - installation view 3 at Victori + Mo Gallery Summer 2020
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Beach BodYoga Mats and Acrylic Adhesive on Panel 40" x 30" 2019
New Work 2019 - 2021
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Wave Crest / Future TideWave Crest / Future Tide Yoga Mats, Powder-Coated Aluminum and Hardware 30" x 40" 2021
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Cold Desert Wind / Breeze ConvergenceCold Desert Wind / Breeze Convergence Yoga Mats, Acrylic, Powder-Coated Aluminum and Hardware 30" x 40" 2021
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Dawn GlowDawn Glow Yoga Mats and Acrylic on Wood Panel 14" x 11" 2020
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CapsuleYoga Mats, Acrylic, Powder Coated Aluminum and Hardware on Panel 40" x 30" 2020
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ShimmerYoga mats and Acrylic on Wood Panel 16" x 12" 2020
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Scraps (Precious Objects)Yoga Mats and Acrylic on Panel 16" x 12" 2020
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Capsule 2Yoga Mats, Acrylic, Enamel, Aluminum and Hardware on Panel 40" x 30" 2020
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Collage ClubYoga Mats, Powder Coated Aluminum and Hardware on Panel 40" x 30" 2019
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Memory CanyonYoga Mats, acrylic, Powder Coated Aluminum and Hardware on Panel 40" x 30" 2021
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Untitled (Bay Tides)Aluminum, enamel and hardware 40" x 30" 2021
Fad Bodies
Works on Paper
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Vacation LimbsAcrylic Monoprint on Paper 12" x 9" 2018
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PeeringAcrylic Monoprint on Paper 12" x 9" 2018
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UntitledAcrylic, latex and yarn on paper 13.5" x 12" 2018
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New TerrainGouache, Acrylic and Embroidery on Paper 2018
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UntitledDrywall embroidered with Yarn, framed monoprint 48" x 48" 2019
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RitualsAcrylic, Gouache and Ink on Paper 12" x 9" 2018
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Dense PalmsAcrylic Monoprint on Paper 12" x 9" 2018
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Dream Vacation House Exterior/InteriorAcrylic and Gouache on Paper 12" x 9" each 2018