Alexandra Hulsey, Location: Chinatown, San Francisco, 2024. silk hand stitched photograph. Photo: Alexandra Hulsey for Dallas Contemporary.

DC STAFF SHOW: KUNST-HALLWAY

On View 17 July - 31 August 2025

 

Masahiro LaMarsh, Red Ruby Prototype for Badu, 2024. 22 karat gold, ruby. Courtesy of the artist and Erykah Badu. Photo: Alexandra Hulsey for Dallas Contemporary.

Iced Out with Grillz Artist Masahiro LaMarsh, The Dallas Morning News June 25, 2025 

‘Curator Alexandra Hulsey collaborated with LaMarsh over the past year to bring “Anticlastic” to life. Their conversations centered on what it means to work as a contemporary artist today and how something like a grill, often seen as a niche accessory, can be considered fine art.’

 

Masahiro LaMarsh, Eclipse, 2023. 18 karat white gold, black rhodium vermeil, 361 black diamonds. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Alexandra Hulsey for Dallas Contemporary.

Anticlastic Is A Must-See Art Exhibition Dedicated To Grillz, Dallas Observer June 24, 2025 

“These are small sculptures,” Hulsey says. “[It’s] grounding and solidifying these pieces [LaMarsh] made as sculptures, nodding to the cultural impact of grillz and putting them in this institution in this context.”

 

Hannah Höch. The Mosquito is Dead. 1922. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Photography by Robert LaPrelle, Kimbell Art Museum.

Feminism, Grief, and Politics: The Mosquito is Dead by Hannah Höch, Femme Art Review May 18, 2025 

By Alexandra Hulsey 

Did you know that all mosquitoes that bite are female? It feels unfair. Something so annoying, invasive, and evil… shouldn’t be a woman. We wouldn’t bite, rage, and feed off blood like that—unless we had a reason. But even then, well-earned.