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Alina Perkins’ practice consists of sculpture, painting, and performance. Drawing from literature and cinema, Perkins depicts recognizable motifs but places them in a space that is ambiguously defined, suggesting the margins of another world. Figures appear and recede — sometimes merging with one another. The blurry edges of their forms nearly touch but resist confinement. Existing between figuration and abstraction, her compositions evoke a dream state or the sensation of a hazy memory. Objects take on new meaning, elements are substituted, perhaps to suggest the arbitrary nature of being. With an interest in the metaphysical, the esoteric, and the psychoanalytic, Perkins creates work that land somewhere between the real and the unreal.

Alina Perkins (b. 1984) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Perkins has studied at Licenciatura en Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, and most recently with Monika Baer at the Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, Germany. Recent group exhibitions include Free Energy, Zodiac Pictures, Los Angeles (2023), SALON, Amor Corp, Los Angeles (2022); Love Song, Sarah Brooke Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); TEKNOLUST: OBJECTOPHILIC FUTURES, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong (2021); Bar, Commercial Street, Los Angeles (2020).