Alex Callender works in drawing, painting, and installation to trace and remap historical materials as a means to explore with both criticality and care, how we disentangle the interwoven relations of race, gender, and capitalism. Drawing largely from archival sources her work engages with mythic and residual forms of coloniality to think about ways that we orient ourselves to the past. Using different visual modes of annotation, hybrid narratives, and speculative storytelling, she recontextualizes static (or seemingly fixed) renderings of history to consider their relationship to social forces like scale, time, and memory. Callender has had solo shows at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, NYU Gallatin Galleries (NY), the Rubber Factory (NY), Michigan State University’s LookOut Gallery, and a public work commissioned by the UMass Amherst University Museum of Contemporary Art. Alex has held residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space…