Artist Statement

I make large oil paintings on canvas, and objects of plaster and stoneware as installation, to create an environment saturated in color.

The largeness of the paintings complements the energy and motion of the brush strokes, and the objects sometimes attract attention by their intensity of color, and by flashing, shaking, turning, smoking and making noise.

The ulterior motive is to create wonder and a sensualist aesthetic, and to unbalance the viewer to set them off guard.

Artist Statement 2

I make large paintings of the shock of light in motion, of figures at play and work; and sculptures of warnings in the forms of mock danger cones. 

The paintings and the sculptures are in attention-grabbing colors, but we have grown accustomed to fluorescent red and yellow-green, and it doesn’t alert us.

Our lives have daily distractions and we can’t quite grasp the power and velocity of long-term threats like apocalyptic weather or the giant sublime, of natural forces greater than us that we can’t control, or human behavior that drags our evolution backwards.

Bio

Alexa Lady MacRady is a New York painter whose first solo show, at Galerie J et J Donguy Paris 1985 curated by Olivier Renaud Clement, was paired with an East Village NYC solo at Dash & Dash Gallery. Solos followed at Smith College, New York University Broadway Windows, University Massachusetts Amherst, Long Island University and Puzzle Ring Factory Tokyo. Larry Rivers and Helen Harrison, curator of the annual Eight Artists Guild Hall Museum exhibitions, awarded her eleven foot painting Straight, No Chaser the First Purchase for inclusion in the Republic National Bank Collection. Two-person at Real Art Ways with Jenny Holzer, three-person at Connecticut College 1991. 

Museum group shows include New Britain Museum of American Art NorEaster 2024, Black Mountain College Museum 2023, Provincetown Art Association Museum 2013, Parrish Museum curated by Werner Kramarsky. Biennials include Jack Shainman The Field, Everson Museum Biennial curated by John Perrault, Sao Paolo Biennial curated by Berta Sichel. 

Awards include a NEA New England Foundation Arts in painting 1995; MassMoCA 2018, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2013, CT Commission Arts awardee 2010 and 2002, Virginia Center Creative Arts 2015, Michael Clark Co UK performances in the Whitney Biennial 2012 and NEA NYU Manhattan digital project. 

MFA Hunter College CUNY 1990. School of Visual Arts NY Milton Glaser 1982. BFA Syracuse University VPA including year abroad at Sir John Cass School of Art London UK.


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Alexa Lady MacRady

Born 1960 Speedway Indiana

MFA 1990 Hunter College CUNY painting

1982  School Visual Arts Milton Glaser Master Workshop

BFA Syracuse University School of Art

Sir John Cass School of Art, London UK, sculpture

Hartford Art School All State year in Secondary level


Awards and Residencies

2024 Gantner Achievement Award, Essex Art Association CT

2015 Virginia Center for Creative Arts residency, Amherst VA

2013 LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - Creative Capital ASI Art Summer Institute

2012 Whitney Biennial  2012, Michael Clark UK Dance Company residency, performer 

2010 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist grant for Installation 

2002 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist grant for Painting

2002 Connecticut Association of Elementary Principals, Community art circle installation

1994-5 NEA New England Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artist grant for Painting 

1988 Guild Hall museum, Eight Artists, East Hampton NY. First purchase award by Larry Rivers

1986-7 William Steeple Davis Trust, Orient Long Island NY full year residency

1984 Pratt institute Manhattan Graphics Center, printmaking residency 

1981,2,3 NEA New York University Digital Manhattan project, Martin Nizenholtz


Selected Solos

2009 Southern Connecticut State University

2001 State Capital Hartford, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, curator Jennifer Aniskovich

1989 Islip Museum, Dowling College, Long Island

 1989 Long Island University Southampton

1988 New York University Broadway Windows  Political Circles   

1987 Smith College. Northampton MA  

1987 University of Massachusetts Amherst   

1987 Real Art Ways, Hartford CT Jenny Holzer, McCrady Axon

1987 Carl Warnecke Architectures Windows, NYC

1987 Galerie Art Mania, Annemasse FR        

1986 Dash & Dash Gallery. East Village NY  Everafter   

1985 Galerie J & J Donguy. Paris  Heaven and Hell   Curator Olivier Renaud-Clement

1983 Calpis corporation, Puzzle Ring Factory. Tokyo Japan

1981 Les Enfants du Paradis Under the Water Tower Installations for Andy Warhol


Selected Group Exhibition

2024  New Britain Museum of American Art Nor’Easter  Kate Menconeri, Chief Curator Thomas Cole National Historic Site

    Lyme Art Association CT Abstract Curator Deborah Dancy

    Essex Art Association CT Surreal Curator Declan Anders 

2023 Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville NC BMC/MX Exhibition Translation In Motion Curator Abraham Cruzvillegas

    Lyme Art Association Expanding Visions  Curator Cary Smith

2022 JHorton at Willoughbys Coffee, Madison CT 

    Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Sill Gallery Old Lyme CT

2021 Artspace New Haven, Curator Lisa Dent

     Odetta Digital, Artsy.net Essential Works Curator Ellen Hackl Fagan

     Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Transformations Curator Brian Flinn

     PS Gallery, Litchfield CT

     Odetta Digital, Artsy.net Page-Turner Curator Ellen Hackl Fagan

2020 Equity Gallery, New York. Curators Prishka Juszka, Luciana Solano, Paul D’Agostino 

     Equity Gallery, New York. The Center Cannot Hold as an artist and as a curator

     Odetta Digital, Artsy.net Sea Change Inaugural Curator, Ellen Hackl Fagan

     Odetta Digital, Artsy.net Pandemic Proof Curator Ellen Hackl Fagan

2019 Space Gallery St Barth. New York ‘Art She Says’ Curator Julie Wynn

     Artspace New Haven Chromaphillia Curator Shannon Blewein, Sara Fritchey

2018 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, Santa Monica LA CA 

     Five Points Gallery, Torrington CT ‘Presence: Encounters with the Figure’ Curator Ann Finholt

     Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT. ‘New Members’ Curator Jeffrey Mueller

     River Street Gallery, Fair Haven CT ‘In Praise of Color’ Curator Liz Pagano

    Artspace New Haven, 2018 Flatfile Collection ‘Folded: New Acquisitions’ Curator Lisa Rosenthal

    Artspace New Haven City Wide Open Studios, curator Helen Kauder

2017 CUNY Queens College Museum. ‘Fabric of Cultures’ Curator Eugenia Paulicelli

    Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT. Curator Erik Ben Kiki, EBK Gallery Hartford

    Spectrum Gallery, ‘Abstract Nature’ Centerbrook CT

    Guilford Art Center, Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing, Florence Griswold Museum CT

2016 Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven 

    Call for Bushwick, finalist

2015 Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City NJ Curators James Pustorino, Anne Trauben

    New Haven Lawn Club, CT Lady MacCrady and Katie Kindilien

2014 Field Projects, Chelsea NYC Curator Deborah Brown

    Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City. The Big Small Show 2014. Anne Trauben, J Pustorino

2013 The Institute Library, New Haven ‘Crossing the Line: Drawings’ Curator Stephen Kobasa

    Provincetown Art Association Museum, Group Exhibition

    Westport Art Center, Curator Helen Klisser During

2012 Radio City Music Hall, Michael Clark Company UK, Jarvis Cocker Pulp, performer

    Connecticut Commission on the Awardees, Hartford Phoenix headquarters, Group show

    Provincetown Art Association Museum, group

2011 Westport Arts Center CT ‘Love’ curator David Kiehl, Whitney Museum

    Connecticut Commission on the Arts Awardees, McCrady Axon & Norma Minkowitz 

2009 Bradley International Airport Terminal A. ‘Oil Drum Art ‘ Curator Power Boothe

2008 Artspace New Haven ‘1,000 Dresses’  Curator Denise Markonish, Linda Lindroth

    Real Art Ways Hartford CT ‘Real Party’ Curator Will Wilkins

2006 Erickson Davis Gallery, Centerbrook CT

2005 Erickson Davis Gallery, Centerbrook CT

2002 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme CT ‘Nature Conservancy’ Curator Christian Brezhneff   

1993 John Slade Ely House, New Haven CT ‘Connecticut Invitational III: Curator’s Choice

1991 Connecticut College  John Dilg, McCrady Axon, Nicolas Pogony 

1990 Parrish Museum. Southampton NY  Curator Werner Kramarsky 

1988 Guild Hall Museum. East Hampton NY  Eight Artists  Curator Helen Harrison

    Benton Gallery, Bridgehampton LI NY. Arlene Bujese, Director 

1987 East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, LI NY. ‘Images on Paper’ Curator Jennifer Cross

    Room Service Gallery, Cyrille Putman, 57th st NYC with Olivier Renaud Clement

1986 Cre-Ange Dance Company. Curator Olivier Renaud Clement, Paris

    The Field, New York. Curator Jack Shainman

1985 Galerie Beau Lezard, Paris. Promesses: MacEwen, Mareval, MacCrady, Kohlhofer

1984 Everson Museum, Syracuse NY  ‘1984 Biennial’ Curator John Perrault 

1983 17th Annual Biennial of Sao Paulo. Brazil Curator Berta Sichel

1982 Washington Street Cafe, New York. LA Eyewear. Curator Andy Warhol


Selected Collections 

Arches Paper Company, Arches Vosges France 

Bill Arning, Houston and Kinderhook NY

Basil Alkazzi. London. Monte Carlo Monaco

Michael Clark, Michael Clark Company London UK

Elaine deKooning. Easthampton NY

Dame Siobhan Davis, Second Stride Dance, London UK

Jean-Pierre Fenez, Jean Vinay Architects. Marrakesh

Greater Hartford Arts Council CT

Island Avenue School. Madison CT

Medtronic Inc. New Haven CT

Sarah Moon. Paris

Republic National Bank of New York. NYC                

Springfield Museum of Art OH, Basil Alkazzi bequest

Barry Wallenstein. NYC

Andy Warhol. NYC


Kim Adams Mark Depman. New Haven CT

Steven Ames. Old Lyme CT

Nancy Berger. CT

Larry Bograd. Denver

Connie Vick, Barry Buckland PhD NYC 

Edmund Caddy III Bath England UK

Caroline Chandler. CT

Tim & Michiko Clorite. NY, RI

Pamela Davis Cook. Colorado

Peter and Jennifer Cowie. Guilford CT

Professor Horst Denkler. Amherst MA

Katy Dobbs. NYC and Redding CT

Michelle Dubé. Hudson NY

Ellen Hackl Fagan. Greenwich and NYC

Robert Falls. NYC and DC

Virginia Friedman. Sag Harbor LI NY

Amy Frey, Michael Schuster. West Hartford CT

Virginia Foster. Guilford CTJason and MK Gobleck. Madison CT and RI

Yvonne Goldsmith, art dealer, Weston CT

Amy Madigan, Ed Harris. Los Angeles

Glenne Headley. LA

Beth Henley. LA

Bob Howsam Jr. Cincinnatti

David Kaplan. NY

Konrad Kaczmarek. New Haven

Sheila and Len Kaczmarek. Guilford CT

Franz Hupscher. Paris

Guy Jaconelli. Madison CT

Hanni Kaufmann, West New York NJ

Jill and David Kay CT

Bruce Lundberg MD Guilford CT

Barbara MacLaurin. Paris

Christina Maile, Paris Mohassel. NYC

Anne McRory. Fairfield CT

Kenneth Miller. NYC

Fred Newman. NYC and Redding CT

Peggy and James Nordgren. Madison CT

Michael O’Neill, Wainscott LI and NYC 

NYManabu Ogawa. Tokyo

Claudia Paluel-Marmont, Paris

Jean-Louis Pinte, Paris

Alex Province, Province Brothers Importers CT

Bill Pullman. LA

Puzzle Ring Factory. Tokyo

David Ricereto. Lido Key FL 

 Sandy Ruoff. Guilford CT

Arlys and Mark Raymond Esq, Miami

Peter Russo DMD, Branford CT

Karen and Ray Seligson. Guilford CT

Hoskins Smith, Bethany, Stonington CT and FL

Alan Starr Esq, New York

Gerri Stokes-Watstein. Palm Springs CA

Kim Stroud, Director Greater Hartford Academy Arts Hartford CT

Frances Taylor, Keith Costa Madison CT

Silvie Turner RA, Steven Drews, Somerset England

Stephanie White. Vancouver Island BC, Calgary, CAN

Lisa Wolkow. Madison CT


Selected Bibliography

*Allan Appel, New Haven Independent, Arts. McCrady Lights Up Feb 3, 2015

*Jeanine Baron, La Croix, Paris. Decembre 3, 1985. page 21 

*Francoise Bataillon, Art Press, Paris. Fevrier1986. 

*Jean Pascal Billaud, Cite Magazine International  Paris. Novembre 1985 

Phyllis Braff, The New York Times   May 22, 1988. page 26  

*Phyllis Braff, The New York  Times  July 6, 1988. Page 18

Bob Colacello,  Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up.  Harper Collins 1990. p xi                 

*Creative Time New York. Time Capsule. A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists. 1995

*Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College CUNY. http://thefabricofcultures.com/foc-object/bonsoir-lb-danger-0539/             

*Katy Dobbs, Andy Warhol’s Interview , May 1981. pages 61-62                                                             

Pat Hackett, The Andy Warhol Diaries, Warner 1989. pages 357, 372, 379, 436. 

*Bernard Hanson. The Hartford Courant,  cover Arts section. February 8, 1987 

*Baird Jones, The East Village Eye, NY. “Andy Warhol: Then and Now”  page 15a                            

*Karin Lipson, Newsday, July 22, 1988. page 31 

*Dinah Prince The Daily News  New York. 8 January 1986. p 31

Jude Schwendenden, Hartford Courant, 25 March 1993 

*Rose Slivka The East Hampton Star  NY. 3 December 1987 

*Joe Tracey The Hartford Courant Sunday Magazine CT. 4 June 1978. cover story + pp 1-7 

*Elisabeth Vedrenne Decoration International  Paris. Novembre 1985             

*Interior Magazine TokyoJapan. May 1983. pp 123-124

The New York Times Magazine.  In support of Elizabeth Murray. 5 May 1991 p26 

The New York Times Sunday. 14 Nov 2004 

*Studio Voice  Tokyo Japan. May 1983


Publication   *art reproductions included 

*On Site Review. Canada journal architecture urbanism 41, 2022. Infrastructure p 41 Streetwork red etchings

*On Site Review. Canada journal architecture urbanism 37, 2021. Drawing 2021 pp 21, 36

*On Site Review. Canada journal architecture urbanism 28, 2012. Sound  Cover front, Cover back

*Friday Night Painters catalogue, Guilford CT 2003

*Helen Harrison. Guild Hall Museum Eight Artists 1988. pages 4-5

*Hunter College, The First Decade, page 5 McCrady Axon       

*Baird Jones, Mark Kostabi and the East Village Scene 1983-1987, Matteo Editore 2002, p 102  

*Werner Kramarsky. Elaine Benson Gallery. 1988 p2 

*Claudia Paluel-Marmont. Galerie J & J Donguy Paris Lady McCrady 1985

*Stephen Peacock, When All Else Fails, Art Works page and artwork #12, 1986

*Barry Wallenstein The Roller Coaster Kid  and other poems. Crowell. New York 1982 

I am honored to have been mentored by  Elaine deKooning, Sol Lewitt, Valerie Jaudon NA, Dan Rice, Friedl Dzubas, Andy Warhol, Audrey Flack, Robert Gwathmey, Vincent Longo, Henry Geldzahler, Judith Rothschild

and to have studied with  Rosalind Krauss, Maurice Berger, Robert Morris, Andrea Blum, Susan Crile,
Milton Glaser, Robert Swain, Larry Bakke, Robert Goodnough, Jack Youngerman


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