Open Sessions Artist 2018-20: Alexis Callender⁣ .⁣ “I interrupt and reconstruct historical texts to explore representations of gender and racial hierarchies in colonial imagery, and the cultural use of surface design and textiles to mediate these embedded relationships to the viewer, often expressing consumer buying power as a primary marker of identity. My research focuses on looking at the lineages of tourism culture, speculative economies and image circulation, and the use of Sci-Fi as a transitive tool to deconstruct the colonial project, which still exists in many forms.”- Alexis Callender⁣ .⁣ Alexis Callender lives and works in New York. Her work has been shown in national and international shows, with solo exhibitions at the Project for Empty Space, and the Chashama Window Project Spaces in New York. ⁣ .⁣ Open Sessions is a two-year program which provides opportunities for selected artists to contextualize work and ideas through exhibitions, public programs, and critical dialogu...