The Laundromat is pleased to announce our first exhibition of 2011, featuring works by Alexa Hoyer and Walsh Hansen. This is the first show in a new location for the Laundromat and coincides with Beat Nite, on February 18th, when Bushwick galleries will stay open until 10.

Alexa Hoyer will be presenting drawings, photographs and transcribed texts of conversations she overheard on the subway. She will also direct a performance based on these transcriptions. With the contribution of New York based actor and comedian Jen Kwok, a group of selected improvisational actors will be reenacting and reinterpreting these dialogues. In much of her work, Alexa Hoyer is concerned with the idiosyncratic elements of the mundane by highlighting unique quirks of the human experience.

Walsh Hansen will present two videos as well as several related drawings and sculptures. The characters in his videos include people and animals, both live and sculptural which interact in domestic spaces and urban landscapes. His work explores the human tendency to anthropomorphize a representation in order to fulfill a base need for companionship. For the artist, the futility in this act and the inevitable need for reciprocity is evinced in a kitten’s contempt for its own sweater.

Hansen was born in Missoula, Montana. He is a graduate of the University of Montana and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. He currently lives and works in New York City. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Alexa Hoyer holds a BFA from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri and an MFA in sculpture from Tyler School of Art. Hoyer has a permanent video installation at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, and has also shown her work throughout the US and in Europe.

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