About the work

The space under a table can be a shelter within a shelter, a refuge that frames a new scene. This landscape painting is directly inspired from the Ikea catalogue page in which it appears but in the place of twisting toy train tracks, a winding blue river is fed from a spill above.

-Alexandra Noel, March 2022

About the artist

ALEXANDRA NOEL (b.1989) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Funny Looking, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2021), There’s always something, Bodega, New York; Master Planned, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris; Just a head, Atlantis, Marseille; Theatre Road, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include Particularities, curated by Chris Sharp, X Museum, Beijing, China (2021), Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum and The Huntington; The Sentimental Organization of the World, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris; Bolthole, with Orion Martin, Potts, Los Angeles; A Cloth Over a Birdcage, Château Shatto, Los Angeles; Metamorphõseõn, Galerie Sultana, Paris. Recent publications include “Ricky Rides Rick” published by Apogee, Bodega and Holoholo and “Take me out, please” published by Bodega and saxpublishers.