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Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Alexandra Grant, on view 27 April through 3 June 2023 at 520 West 21st Street. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Sarah C. Bancroft.

The exhibition features monumental new paintings from Grant’s ongoing series, Antigone 3000. Beginning this series in 2014, Grant takes inspiration from Sophocles’ classic Athenian tragedy—most prominently Antigone’s quote, “I was born to love, not to hate.” The proclamation weaves its way throughout the work, rendered through the …