Raha Raissnia with Andrew Lampert

Raha Raissnia learned to paint from filmmakers and musicians rather than painters. Years spent at Anthology Film Archives left her well-versed in the cinematic avant-garde, and her projection performances often involve collaborations with experimental musicians Aki Onda and Charles Curtis. Above all, Raissnia’s work aspires to the temporal and experiential condition of music—suggestive, ambiguous, abstract. Over the past decade, the artist’s paintings, drawings, and films have unfolded within a permutational, self- reflexive structure. In her earlier work, the artist presented dense, architectonic black and white drawings and paintings that appeared to echo a certain postwar European abstraction.

Andrew Lampert’s films and performances have been widely exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou and the Toronto International Film Festival. As an archivist, he has preserved hundreds of canonical experimental and independent films. Recent curatorial projects include Ken Jacobs: Up The Illusion (80WSE Gallery), My Harry (Whitney Museum), and Attention Line (Artists Space). Lampert co-writes the monthly advice column Hard Truths for Art in America and has edited books on William Wegman, Tony Conrad, and Harry Smith among others. Further Reading, a new publishing imprint that he is launching with Christine Burgin, will debut in Spring 2025.