Emily Alesandrini is a curator, art historian, and advocate based in New Orleans and New York. Her research concerns contemporary representations of race and gender with a particular focus on issues of opacity, ornament, and the diasporic body in art by women and artists of color. She has contributed to exhibition planning and publications at Wave Hill in the Bronx, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, The Ford Foundation Gallery in New York, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Her writing has been featured in A Women’s Thing and Independent Curators International publications. Alesandrini graduated from Smith College with Latin Honors and a BA in Art History. As a fully-funded Elizabeth Allison Emory Scholar, she earned her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History from Tulane University. She continues her studies as a doctoral student in Art History at Bryn Mawr College.

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Printmaker Katrina Andry Reimagines a Slave Revolt’s Past, Present, and Future as an Inferno of Simultaneity

By EMILY ALESANDRINI

In this scene and the others in the solo exhibition Afro-what-if-ism: Reimagining One Night in 1811 at Ibis Contemporary Gallery, Andry reconsiders antebellum narratives of the past, temporally remixing present and potential future scenes of liberation and leisure.

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Alex Jackson’s Mythologies of Survival

By EMILY ALESANDRINI

Without the proper identification or with emergency pamphlets that cannot ensure a safe landing, survival reads like a maze along mythological borders.

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Contemporary Exhibition Inspired by the Sacred – ALTER – Leaves One Changed

By EMILY ALESANDRINI

The exhibition asks of us: how have you been altered? And what on your pedestal (be it religious, nationalist, or art historical) warrants burning down?

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Artists Push Photography Across Time and Into New Material Space in i’ve been here before

By EMILY ALESANDRINI

The collective works in the show convey the capacity of photography and photo-ish objects to commune with the departed, to transport to the past/future and unknown, and to enliven silences and make noise.