Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon

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The simultaneous embrace of form and formlessness is indicative of Lemon's refusal to be fixed. He handles identity like wet clay: something slippery, unstable, and wildly hard to grasp. -- Amit Noy * Artforum * Bringing into focus works that resist broad classification, 'Ceremonies Out of the Air' illustrates Lemon's characteristic style of deflection, or what he calls fugitivity.' His anarchic, movement-based works obliterate formalist conventions, skewer straightforward tellings of history, and consider how time and place materialize in muscle memory. * Mousse Magazine * Much like Lemon himself, the exhibition defies categorization, blending and blurring his roles as an artist, choreographer, and writer. The result is a body of work that is at once confounding and poetic, absurd yet deeply relatable, offering a fragmented yet illuminating glimpse into the intricate workings of the artist's mind. -- Rebecca Schiffman * Hyperallergic * Working in the contexts of dance, drawing, painting, installation, and writing, New York-based Ralph Lemon has expanded what art can be through a generative practice that questions the conventions of his different disciplines and his body's relationship to each. -- Maximiliano Duron * Art in America *