SAVE THE DATE!!!
ALEX EMMONS
@data___________________ | DREGMANCY
ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: February 14, 7–9 PM
EXHIBITION: February 14 - March 21, 2026
Delving into the core conceptual and aesthetic components of Alex Emmons’ practice, DREGMANCY is an amalgam of the real and the synthesized; a compounding of memory, fantasy, archaeology, spirituality, and prehistory. Inspired by childhood memories of digging for burnt trash in the empty lot next to his house, Emmons cherished the objects as artifacts and imbued the debris with magical qualities.
Reframing the discarded and ephemeral is an essential component echoed throughout his work. Alterations to the gallery space replicate this imaginary landscape, making it feel primordial and swampy. A place rife with decay and rebirth, on the edge of a dream, where prehistory and the ancient world are contained in a singular space. An Imagined place of broken order where semiotics exist in superpositions, fairies transmute into mosquitoes, and butterflies transform into anthropomorphic airplanes. An intangible order externalized, a trash heap of his own design, a covenant rooted in fantasy, formed by the unseen self
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Photo and direction by
@santgazi
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