Here’s the Buzz:
Fort Mason Center and FOR-SITE present ‘Lexa Walsh at the Guardhouse’
Mourning Song featured as the cover story in the Marina Times
“An art installation in Santa Ana centers around the habit of sisters’ activism”
Interview with Sarah Mosqueda about Sisters InfoShop in the LA Times
“Novato museum exhibit takes on the complexities of war”
Consolidated Mess previewed in Marin Independent Journal
“DESPITE APPEARANCES, HOWEVER, A COHERENCE EMERGES BETWEEN WALSH’S RELATIONAL AND OBJECT-ORIENTED CREATIONS, ALL OF WHICH ESPOUSE A FOLKSY, CRITICAL SENSE OF HUMOR AND AN APPRECIATION FOR THE WONDERFULLY UGLY THINGS OF LIFE.”
60wrd/min Lori Waxman’s take on my Covid art in New City Art
“WALSH TREATS THE PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND ODD STATUETTES WITH A POPULIST LEVELING THAT PUTS ROBERT ARNESON’S LEONINE HEAD ON LITERALLY THE SAME PLANE AS A MASS-PRODUCED STEAKHOUSE CHEF FIGURINE AND VARIOUSLY DISTRESSED SAINTS.”
Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times is reviewed by KQED
“THE INSTALLATION/EXHIBITION THAT RESULTED, “BOTH SIDES NOW,” IS POWERFUL, SUBVERSIVE AND SOMETIMES JUST PLAIN FUNNY. EVERY MUSEUM COULD LEARN FROM IT.”
Review of Both Sides Now in ArtScope
"WORKING WITH LEXA BROUGHT A LOT OF ENERGY AND POSSIBILITY TO WHAT THE SERIES COULD BE," SAID PELAEZ. "FROM THERE, IT COULD ONLY KEEP GROWING."
WCMA Summer School gets covered in the Berkshire Eagle
“WHILE THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE LACKS THE EDGINESS OF ITS PREDECESSORS, PERHAPS IT MAKES UP FOR IT IN ITS APPROACHABILITY. IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOK, PERHAPS MUSEUMS ATTEMPTING TO BEFRIEND AUDIENCES AND ARTISTS IS THEIR BEST STRATEGY FOR SOCIAL RELEVANCE.”
Jen Delos Reyes wrote this in Bomb
“FOR MANY WHO GREW UP CATHOLIC AND LEFT THE CHURCH, THE INFLUENCE OF THE EDUCATION THEY RECEIVED IN CATHOLIC SCHOOL STAYS WITH THEM FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES — FOR BETTER OR WORSE.”
An interview with Georgia Perry about Oh Sister! in a Sisterly publication
“WHEN I THINK ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE OF MEAL TICKET, I REALIZE I CAME AWAY WITH THREE THINGS: BEAUTIFUL FOOD, AN UNCOMMON EXCHANGE AND DIALOGUE WITH A STRANGER, AND EPHEMERA”.
An interview with Christine Wong Yap, Making Hospitable Democracy Happen
“PRESENTING THIS SOMBER SIDE OF AN INSTITUTION’S STORY ISN’T A SENSATIONALIST GESTURE, BUT RATHER A WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGING THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE STRUGGLED -- AND SUCCEEDED -- TO KEEP INTERSECTION AFLOAT. AND THAT’S SOMETHING THAT AN ARCHIVE REVEALS IN A UNIQUE WAY.”
A KQED preview of the Intersection Archive Show by Emily Holmes
“Lexa Walsh runs a micro-funding dinner series called Oakland Stock that supports artists by selling soup”
Pots of Patronage, Sarah Burke's story about Oakland Stock
“Walsh therefore has us thinking about what archives mean, how they are shared, and what are their afterlives”
Artist Spotlight in the San Francisco Bay Times
“MAKE/WORK EPISODE 14: DAN NELSON AND LEXA WALSH”
Scott Pinkmountain interviews my partner Dan Nelson and me on The Rumpus
“These all speak. Walsh says, to visitors' own assumptions about behavior in museums, which creates timidity. Walsh hopes to undercut that emotional dynamic.”
A preview of my WCMA activities
“For one night, student-fueled Shine a Light turns PAM into a social experiment.”
Museum Mayhem in Portland Monthly