Art & Culture Lecture: Alexi Worth

 

Alexi Worth, Head and Shoulders
Alexi Worth, Head and Shoulders, 200

Artist Alexi Worth was born and raised in New York City. He attended Yale College (BA 1986) and Boston University (MFA 1993). He has exhibited with, among others, the Elizabeth Harris, Bill Maynes and DC Moore galleries; received awards from the Tiffany Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts; and is currently represented by DC Moore. In addition to his painting, Worth has written about art for The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Slate, and other magazines. He is currently a Senior Critic at the University of Pennsylvania ‘s Graduate Program in Fine Art.

“Painted with sensuous neatness in a nicely simplifying representational style, Alexi Worth’s pictures present curious visual puzzles slyly charged with sexual undercurrents.”
-K. Johnson

All lectures are free and open to the public, bring a friend!
Next up: Reading of “MARLOWE,” a play by Odd Nerdrum, Saturday, October 16, 5pm

The NYAA Library has the following resources available exclusively for NYAA students.

 

  • Related titles on Pop Art, Rene Magritte, Alex Katz, and contemporary figurative work.
  • Access to articles and reviews written by and about Alexi Worth through Gale and Cengage Learning.
  • Images in ArtStor, collected in the Alexi Worth image group for easy retrieval.