"Content May Settle" Alisha Kerlin
ASAP welcomed Alisha Kerlin's solo project Content May Settle from February 21 -
27th 2021. Kerlin used ASAP as an experimental space to make and install dozens of new
paintings from her junk mail series. Content May Settle is Kerlin's first solo art
project since becoming a mother and director.
"My work is made at our breakfast table in the living room. I paint on junk mail and
other disposable or disregarded materials. I use fragments from family
conversations for the text in my paintings.
I collaborate with artists and writers.
Childhood memory is a big part of the work as is my role as a mother. My job as
museum director leaks in as well. These conditions shape what I make—imperfect,
quick, gestures made to acknowledge the roles others have in my life."
“In their isolation, Kerlin’s paintings function much more closely to the slippery,
meaning-stuffed, ever-evolving nature of language itself,” wrote Matthew Newton
in 2011 for Art21. Over the last decade, Kerlin’s work has become more and more
about connection.”
Alisha Kerlin makes art in her living room on her desk. Her paintings are on junk
mail. A graduate of the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Bard College (MFA),
and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (BFA), Kerlin’s own artwork has been
shown at institutions ranging from P3Studio at The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, to
the Museum of Modern Art’s PS1 Museum in New York. She lives and works in Las
Vegas, NV with her family.
