The painting "Red Kitchen Cabinet Curtain" by Alexandra Barth features a vibrant red curtain contrasted against a checkerboard floor, with sharp angles lending a sense of spatial intrigue. Barth's style combines airbrush techniques with a quasi-photographic realism, creating an atmosphere both mundane and uneasy. The stark interior hints at Middle European influences and reflects modernist design's homogenizing effect. This piece captures the tension between modernity and everyday life, with a noirish undertone characteristic of Barth's exploration of contemporary still life. ...
ALEXANDRA BARTHSlovakian, b. 1989, Lives and works in Zohor, Slovakia and Sanguinetto, Italy.
"Alexandra Barth is essentially a still life painter. Working in airbrush, Barth portrays stark and moody interiors of a relatively nondescript, middle European character. Her cold, quasi-photographic imagery is freighted with a nebulous, if noirish narrative charge; far from cozy and welcoming, it contains a certain menace, as if these were forensic details of a crime scene. The uniform, Ikea-style furniture found in her interiors, which recalls the utopian production ideals of Bauhaus, Russian constructivism, and even post-war American design, assumes a somewhat dystopian character here, by virtue of having all but fully realized the homogenizing tendency of these movements. The unexpected angles of Barth's compositions wield a rushed, snapshot quality while recalling the dramatic angularity of constructivism- a drama that is heightened by the work's penchant for chiaroscuro lighting. As such, these ostensibly simple still lives
are full of a rich and dynamic strangeness which subtly upends their apparent banality while depicting certain legacies of modernism within everyday life."
-Chris Sharp
Alexandra Barth received her degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2013. She has held solo exhibitions at Photoport and Hotdock Project Space, Bratislava, Slovakia; Loom, Milan; A SUD, Pescara, Italy; Stone Projects, Prague, Czech Republic; Chris Sharp, Los Angeles, CA; and Mrs., Maspeth, NY. Recent group exhibitions include presentations at Medium and DKP, Bratislava; MiArt, Milan, Italy; Document, Chicago, IL; Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA; The Salon by NADA; Carole Lambert Presente, Paris, France and Huxley-Parlour, London. Her solo presentation at The Armory Show, New York, NY, in 2024 won the TCP Art Finance Prize. She will have a solo exhibition at Document, Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2025. She has been represented by Mrs. since 2025. The artist currently lives and works in Sanguinetto, Italy. ...
Founded in September of 2016, Mrs. is a contemporary art gallery located in Maspeth, Queens. Located away from the geographic center of the New York art world, the gallery focuses on offering a new platform for emerging, under represented and mid career artists, while engaging the surrounding community.
