NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society presents Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes, the first solo institutional presentation of the Argentine artist in New York.
The exhibit showcases boldly colorful paintings depicting domestic interiors that highlight the tension between representation and abstraction.
In this exhibition, the artist challenges the idea of interior and exterior by incorporating an artificial landscape inside the art gallery: to guide the viewers through her works, the show is accompanied by a site-specific installation in the form of a minigolf course in Americas Society's gallery.
Three additional rugs, featuring palette and landscape designs created by the artist, further connect the natural world and the practice of painting.
“By inviting visitors to play alongside her works, she presents a specific path by which to view her last twenty-five years of work—a journey that is both guided and open to interpretation,” says Aimé Iglesias Lukin, curator of the exhibition and Director and Chief Curator, Art at Americas Society.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1969, Seeber came of age in the Argentine artistic avant-garde of the mid-1990s, participating in the Beca Kuitca Fellowship Program and moving to New York in 1999, where she has consistently shown in galleries and group exhibitions in museums. In her work, Seeber draws inspiration from alternative rock, stage designs, musical performances, urban culture, digital software, textiles, and crafts, all sources that she transforms into dynamic paintings.
Seeber’s paintings from the late 1990s depict middle-class living rooms, slightly shifting linear perspective to flatten the ground while emphasizing the texture of elements like hardwood floors or woven rugs. By the mid-2000s, Seeber transitioned to oil painting and continued her exploration of domestic interiors as vessels for formal experimentation. Other works from the same period combine two interior spaces in a composition connected by a Rorschach-looking paint stain, such as Misiones /Urquiza (lapacho y algodón / bambú y cubo mágico).
The artist will distribute prizes —two unique ceramic trophies — in an awards ceremony, to be held on July 24, 6pm—8pm, for the best minigolf player and for the winner of a lucky draw.
The show will be the third exhibition in an ongoing series focusing on understudied or
underrepresented women and women-identifying artists from the Americas. The series began in 2022 with an exhibition of Mexican sculptor Geles Cabrera and continued in 2023 with a show on Chilean interdisciplinary artist Sylvia Palacios Whitman.
To accompany the show, Americas Society will present a series of public programs and publish a catalogue.
Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes is curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin. The installation Grammatical Minigolf is made in collaboration with Iair Rosenkranz and Lalana Rugs by Florencia Cherñajovsky.
