Tuesday, October 14, 8PM: Amanda Alfieri

Amanda Alfieri is a performance and video artist working in New York City. In 2011 she was possessed by Tupac Shakur, an event on which she based the majority of her subsequent work. Alfieri uses her body as the subject of her work, often changing and manipulating it. She is a graduate of Skowhegan School of painting and drawing and Columbia University.

Clifford Owens has said Alfieri is “one of the most interesting and exciting young artists working in New York City. Her work is authentic, unapologetic, “real,” raw, and goose-bump-beautiful. I’m surprised that more artists and curators don’t know about her work, they should. I’m not sure if this artist would claim to be either a feminist artist or a Latina artist, but it seems to me that her work decidedly disrupts both narrow notions of creative and political agency. I think her work challenges viewers to think about ‘the other’ and a woman in ways that are uncommon, unconventional, and uncomfortable. I can think of very few young women (or men) in New York City who make trans-disciplinary art that’s this good.”