About PM/AM
PM/AM is a contemporary art gallery located on the border of Soho and Fitzorovia in the heart of London. It hosts a busy programme of shows across the two exhibition floors of the Eastcastle Street space. The gallery’s lower ground floor studio provides the location for a residency space for international and under-represented artists to develop their practice. Together the spaces form a unique cultural and creative hub in the bustling centre of the city.
PM/AM’s mission is to reflect through art how we engage with ourselves and the world today, expressed through the artists it is fortunate enough to work with. Recent graduates, those emerging into the spotlight and in their mid-careers on the international stage all feature across a dynamic programme. The gallery works on the vanguard of the emerging art sector, responsible for finding artists of tomorrow, and is keen to explore and present work originating from the many interlocking diasporas of the world. PM/AM’s plays a part in the incubation of contemporary art’s future by representing a carefully selected roster of artists, working with them to initiate and grow lasting careers in the global art world.
As a dynamic arts organisation PM/AM’s activities extend beyond exhibitions into consultation, publications and editorial, providing the means to facilitate placements with collectors and institutions, and create extended content to further support and expose the artists we work with. This self-contained structure is key to the gallery’s broad outlook and capabilities, however we value collaborations with external writers, curators and other galleries to realise our goals.
Exhibition Text
The weight of meaning rests upon a set of immediate factors that may involve context, relevance and myriad personal circumstances that link an observer with what it is that they are drawing meaning from. What is perhaps less potent in this cognitive whirl is the role played by scale, or resolution - the perceptive point of distance from which someone is able to analyse something. If we look upon a sunlit meadow from a sitting position on a blanket, we may see peace and tranquillity; there becomes a point however, where the scale at which the same environment can be observed may reveal the turmoil and violence present throughout the natural world.
The latest series of paintings from Miami based artist Alejandra Moros allows us to view symbols of the everyday at a scale that brings out their obscure elegance. She guides us into a semi-secretive space where the objects she paints are defiantly wonderful, transcending any preconceptions we may hold towards them. This is not however the only dimension to the work. As a counterbalance, her paintings also remind us of the corporeal world, the discomfort of seeing skin under tension, a woozy and not completely pleasant interaction of textures.
These conflicting ideas complexify what could be seen as technically astounding but deceptively straightforward paintings. Residing inside narrow hues and focusing on only one or two primary elements, the depths to which the work can be experienced are sunk into over time and with space for contemplation.
The notion of portraiture, for instance, is probed in examples that focus on fine details of the human body. At the scale Alejandra works at, we will never see a fully formed body, or face, but we may see the curve of an eyelid. If a portrait could be characterised by an inherent sense of intimacy and personal exchange between the artist and the subject, focusing on a specific detail, if anything, deepens the intimacy. It shares with us something ultimately more beguiling, more invasive even, but built on a more sophisticated sense of trust and intention.
Inverting the soothing intimacy and challenging closeness, opposing orders of magnitude occasionally crop up in Alejandra’s work. What has its roots in the interior of a shell may briefly resemble a womb or the inner ear, before the eye and mind find themselves staring at some kind of cosmic structure. This may well be the high point in the illusory magic of these paintings: the feeling that you can be a sizeable entity inspecting the minutiae of the mundane, then suddenly roles are reversed and you are a mere fragment, overwhelmed beneath the enormity of existence.
Despite the grandeur of these statements, what sits at the core of the work is resolutely humble. Colour, tone and the sensation of a flowing motion caught not by the artist but by the structures of the objects themselves, come together to create something ultimately serene. Whilst a consistency in technique bridges works together, each can be seen as its own rumination on scale, and the disorientating beauty that can be found when our perspective undergoes a profound shift.
- Daniel Mackenzie, September 2023
CV
Born: 2000, Miami, United States.
Lives and works in Miami.
Education
2021 - BFA Graphic Design, University of Miami, Florida.
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2023 - Spinello Projects, Miami.
2023 - Garten Gallery, Como.
2022 - Painters Painting Paintings, online.
2021 - NADA, Miami.
2021 - Flowerbox Projects, Miami.
Group Exhibitions
2023 - Commune Gallery, Vienna.
2023 - Roberts Projects, Los Angeles.
2022 - Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai.
2022 - NADA, Miami.
2022 - The Margulies Warehouse, Miami.
2022 - PM/AM, London.
2022 - Marinaro Gallery, New York.
2022 - Jack Siebert Projects, New York.
2022 - Gallerie Derouillon, Brussels.
2022 - One World Gallery, Miami.
2022 - Spazio Amanita, Los Angeles.
2021 - Dale Zine, Miami.
2021 - 3100, Miami.
2019 - Rice Hotel, Miami.
2019 - Space Mountain, Miami.
2016 - Beaux Arts Festival, Miami.
Residencies
2023 - PM/AM, London.
2023 - Oolite Arts Studio, Miami.
2022 - Painters Painting Paintings/Oostmeijer, Amsterdam.
2021 - Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami.
