Alyssa Grey – The Space Between Leaving and Staying
June 3 - August 29
Third Floor East Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Alyssa Grey which will be on view in the Third Floor East Gallery from June 3 – August 29, 2026. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, August 29 from 5-7 pm.
About the exhibit:
My work investigates the dynamics of personal relationships through the framework of spatial relations, exploring how physical positioning can act as a stand-in for emotional structure. I create interdependent networks whereby units rely on one another to function as a means of support for isolated moments within the work. The work is a never-ending experiment, harnessing industrial and organic materials to find new and unlikely combinations that coexist while enduring difficult relations.
By crafting my own tools and equipment, and jerry-rig problems rather than fix them, I create objects that reflect the expediency of do-it-yourself, lower-middle-class home projects. The soiled structures form quick-fix foundations, stubbornly clinging to kindred objects as a coping mechanism. By choosing to work with soda cans, duct tape, and other materials, I fabricate double meanings and imbed poorly made jokes within the larger sculptural systems. These jokes always fall short of a punchline, leaving them confused and alone.
About the artist:
Alyssa Grey works intuitively to create interdependent networks whereby units rely upon each other in order to function as a means of support for isolated moments in the work. She creates a conversation between the work and the spaces in which they are residing.
Fueled by the never-ending question, “what if?” Grey experiments with industrial and organic materials to find new and unlikely combinations of both. These personally inflected and playful objects draw from the “do-it-yourself” expediency of lower-middle-class home projects which often entails crafting her own tools and equipment to create a “quick-fix.”
Alyssa Grey attended University of Louisiana at Lafayette and received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture in 2020. She then went on to obtain her Master’s Degree in Sculpture at Boston University in 2024. Grey currently lives and works in Huntsville, AL where she is an Art Instructor at Alabama A&M University.