“The Santa Monica-raised Pietro Alexander, who runs SPY Projects in L.A… plans to test the waters in New York this spring, opening a group show at his uncle Brooke Alexander‘s former gallery in SoHo (Alexander’s father is the late Light and Space legend Peter Alexander).”

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Curated by longtime friend of Nuance Mia Scarpa and hosted by Los Angeles art gallery Spy Projects, “Mirror Show” synthesizes the work and vision of 29 artists into one dynamic space that combines the comfort of personal craftsmanship with the artistic precision found in the classic gallery space...

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“A regular sight at fairs that lean toward emerging artists is prodigious collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, roaming the aisles looking for young talent to support. Among those she took on this year was Tiffany Alfonseca, whose floorwork Enganchando Ropa she recently bought. Other works acquired this year include Jaxon Demme, The Feeding, 2021, and Gerald Jackson, Untitled (Skid Painting), 1980s. “

‘“Disassembly Line,” presented by Pietro Alexander, Sasha Filimonov and Gabriella Rothbart, investigates these interior, personal ways in which we’ve come to understand our cars. Riffing off the butchering and packaging processes of late 19th-century slaughterhouses that helped give birth to the Fordian assembly line, the curators set seven artists loose on a 1998 Oldsmobile 88––letting them gut it, manipulate it, and remake it from the ground up––in order to poke holes in the supposed intransigence of industrial systems, and obliquely, the role of the traditional gallery.’

“Like bears crawling from their winter dens, society is going outside again. Hello World, the inaugural gallery show from Pietro Alexander and Sasha Filimonov’s Spy Projects, celebrates this time of renewal and transition with an impressive exhibition of talent, technique, and purpose from a group of exciting young artists.”

“Under the title “Hello World” curators Pietro Alexander (www.spy-projects.com) and Sasha Filimonov have expertly assembled a group of emerging artists who practice a range of styles and attitudes. They all studied back East, at the Rhode Island School of Design (and one, James McBride, at Bennington). They also all share a confidence and competence that gives a gratifying maturity to their work. It’s clever, playful, and virtuosic by turns, but thoughtful and searching as well.”